Marcus Meissner writes:
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
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?
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.
Very interesting, thanks for the quick response. IIUC, that means that those you use zypper patch to update their systems, don't get updates for their installed packages from OBS. Need to keep that in mind... Now that I reread the 2nd paragraph in http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage/11.2#Update_Management, it tells that. I didn't recognize that "Update repositories" are really just the openSUSE ones and not other OBS repos that one may use. Shouldn't one emphasize this info more in that paragraph? I would do it; but the page tells "don't edit because it gets moved to the new Wiki". Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org