patch

In PMC, a patch is a collection of solutions. In general a patch contains solutions created in a larger time period. The patch entity is both known at the PMC distributor and PMC recipient side. Patches are an indivisible set of solutions. You cannot install or uninstall individual solutions that belong to a patch at the PMC recipient. You can only install or uninstall patches as a whole. Yo can define dependencies between patches. Patches leave the base VRC that is linked to the update VRC at the PMC recipient unchanged. The existing PMC registry will remain and will be extended with data of the newly installed patch. Patches only permit the most recent version of software components to be maintained. Patches in general mainly contain corrective solutions.