Good day Nick,

I see in the update directory for Suse 8.1 that there are 2 types of files. One with the extension *.patch.rpm and the size of these packages are to small, and the *.rpm which is i think the hole packages. I download the hole tree and install the packages with the yast2 module "Patch CD Update".

Now I want to ask if i need the "*.patch.rpm" packages or not. Which packages the yast module needs?

You do not _need_ the '*.patch.rpm' packages. The '*patch.rpm' packages contain only what has actually changed in the full package on the SuSE CD. So, if a full original package contains 100 files, and a patch changes only one of the files, the '*.patch.rpm' will contain only the single file that changed - not the other 99 files that did not change. This makes the '*.patch.rpm' file smaller than the full package. This is good if you are on an ordinary (or slow) modem. Installation wise the only difference between the full package and the '*.patch.rpm' package is that in order to apply the '*.patch.rpm' package the original package from the CD _must_ already be installed. Best regards :o) Johnny :o)