- Repository
-
A local or remote directory containing packages plus additional
information about these packages (package meta-data).
- (Repository) Alias
-
A short name for a repository used by various zypper commands. The
alias can be chosen by the user when adding a repository and has to be
unique.
- Product
-
Represents a whole product, for example openSUSE.
- Pattern
-
A pattern is an installable list of packages needed for a special
purpose. Examples are Base System, providing
the openSUSE basic system, or GNOME Base
System, containing all packages needed to run the GNOME
Desktop environment.
- Package
-
A package is a compressed file in rpm format that contains the files
for a particular program.
- Patch
-
A patch consists of one or more packages—either full packages or
patchrpm or deltarpm packages— and may also introduce
dependencies to packages that are not installed yet.
- Resolvable
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An generic term for product, pattern, package or patch. The most
commonly used type of resolvable is a package or a patch.
- patchrpm
-
A patchrpm consists only of files that have been updated since it was
first released for openSUSE 11.1. Its download size is
usually considerably smaller than the size of a package.
- deltarpm
-
A deltarpm consists only of the binary diff between two defined
versions of a package and therefore, has the smallest download size.
Before being installed, the rpm package has to be rebuilt on the local
machine.
