On 05/09/2012 07:29 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-05-09 13:19, George Olson wrote:
On 05/09/2012 04:35 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
What is difference between 'up' and 'patch?'
Please correct me if I am wrong since I am new at this, but I understand it like this. "zypper up" updates all the installed packages to newer versions of those packages, and "zypper patch" applies corrective fixes to installed packages without updating them to newer versions. Close, but not quite. That's the consequence of what it does.
zypper patch, which is equivalent to yast online update (YOU), only applies updates that come from the updates repo.
I am glad you mentioned that, because I didn't know that from reading
the manual. In the zypper manual, it doesn't say anything under the
zypper patch section that it only applies updates that come from the
updates repo, and it gives an option for applying updates from whatever
repo you want to specify:
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'.
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