Re: Complaint and question about 16.0
Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:00:13 +0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.general |
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21.06.2026 06:10, Jon Cosby via openSUSE Users wrote: > > On Saturday, June 20th, 2026 at 7:18 PM, Robert Webb via openSUSE Users <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When I get KDE notifications on Leap that updates are available, I run >> 'zypper up'. When is it appropriate to use 'zypper patch'? >> >> Will 'zypper up' install any needed patches? >> >> Will 'zypper patch' install any non-patch updates? >> >> If the answers are in the documentation, where? >> -- >> Robert Webb >> > > 'zypper up' updates software to the newest version, where available. 'zypper patch' only installs needed patches. patch is quicker, and maybe more stable. > "zypper patch" installs exactly the same packages as "zypper up" would have installed. The difference is that "zypper patch" guarantees that multiple packages are updated to the version required by the patch together or patch installation will fail while "zypper up" may silently skip some updated packages if they are not installable.