On 05/09/2012 04:35 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
I remember reading quite some time ago that using "up" in zypper also included updating any patches (zypper patch).
Obviously I either misunderstood what I read or something change.
I just ran 'zypper patch' and found that it came up with the message which is referred to the error message I got. The only thing is that it provided a choice and therefore a solution on how to overcome this dependency problem.
I applied the patch using zypper - and the system is still working so it must have been a successful application of the patch :-) .
Thanks for the prompt showing that "up" does not include "patch" in zypper.
BC
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. As I read through "man zypper" it doesn't exactly explain the difference an update and a patch, but only that one command installs updated packages while the other installs needed patches. So this is where the communication breaks down for us newbs, not knowing the difference between an update and a patch, and not having a clear explanation written out anywhere. But in my very preliminary research, I think that the difference is that with patches, a developer creates separate files (using the diff command) that have the suffix .patch to them, and that zypper patch installs those files instead of updates. Is that right? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 3GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org