Suse people The patch description files that you have online for SuSE 7.1 are broken and cause extra packages to be installed and also extra downloads to take place. For example, the openssl file ~ftp/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/patches/openssl-3652 contains three InstPath: lines that tell it to patch sec1/openssl-0.9.6a-63, openssl-doc-0.9.6a-63 and openssl-devel-0.9.6a-63. YOU in SuSE 7.1 proceeds to apply all three of these patches if the openssl.rpm is installed. If you only had openssl.rpm installed before, you now also have openssl-doc.rpm and openssl-devel.rpm. If you now run YOU a second time, it finds the patch description files openssl-doc-1 and openssl-devel-1 in ~ftp/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/patches and checks their status in /var/lib/YaST/patches/i386/update/7.1/patches and sees these files as *.new so then applies them again, redownloading the rpm files for each one. This is not just openssl that's affected by this, it's also apache, apache-contrib, bind8, mod_php4 and possibly others as well. This sort of "multiple files in one patch description file" thing works ok on SuSE 7.3 from what I can see but on Suse 7.1 it does not. Trevor Hemsley, Security Specialist, Atos Origin Ltd, Whyteleafe, +44-(0)1883-628139 [This electronic transmission and any files attached to it are strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance of this transmission. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify us by return and delete the same. The views expressed in this electronic transmission do not necessarily reflect those of Atos Origin or any of its subsidiary companies. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. Thank You.]