Re: [opensuse] Re: Changing zypper command

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

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