On 02/10/2021 09.48, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 02.10.2021 10:11, Marcus Meissner wrote:
- Does the repository provide patches for zypper or complete RPMs only?
patches.
There is probably terminology confusion here. Update repositories provide patch descriptions that tell zypper what RPMs to install. Additionally they always provide complete RPMs which are what actually gets installed when patch "installation" is requested. But patch descriptions are just metadata and are entirely optional (i.e. you can also apply updated RPMs without going via patch indirection).
"Patches" just tell zypper to replace existing RPM packages with new RPM packages with higher versions.
And maybe the OP was thinking of delta rpms vs complete rpms. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))