How do I set `zypper-automatic` to install *all* available patches?

[jdrch]

Hi, just wondering the above. It would seem from reading the zypper docs linked to that patch_categories = optional would do the trick, but I just want to make sure.

[losuler]

You could test by running the command this script does, with and without --category optional and see, but admittedly I only ever used this (besides testing back when I wrote this) without specifying category.

zypper-automatic/main.py

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command = ["zypper", "patch", "--no-confirm", "--details"]

Based on the man page, it says that specifying --category will "List only patches with this category"¹. I think maybe what you're after is what --with-optional provides:

Note that the patch command does not apply optional patches (category optional or feature) by default. If you actually want to consider all optional patches as being needed, say patch --with-optional.

Footnotes

1. https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual ↩

[jdrch]

Thanks very much. I'm gonna try yast2's online update config and see how that works out.