On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
"up" is safe, normally.
An alternative is "zypper patch", which is similar to what "you" does:
patch [options] Install all available needed patches.
If there are patches that affect the package management itself, those will be installed first and you will be asked to run the patch command again.
This command is similar to 'zypper update -t patch'.
It is even safer.
What means "even safer"?
I have always wondered what difference are between patches and "normal" software updates. It's probably not the bandwidth, as long as delta rpms are used, so I suspect it's more a kind of policy thing.
Btw, I understand the *technical* difference between a patch and a full/delta rpm, no need to explain me that. What I don't know is the policy difference between those two update methods: Do they carry the same amount of updates?
Anybody can shed some light on this?
A patch is a metadescription of a collection of updated RPMs with specific versions. This patch in there is basically just meta information, the packages are seperate. As only the Update repo has this metadata, no other RPM updates will be installed. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org