US Patent 11922158 Unified local patch repository

A method for software patching, the method may include determining to expose at least one patch of a version of an operating system to one or more computers located outside a unified local path repository (ULPR) hosted by a computer; and exposing, for period of time and by the ULPR, a selected logical computer that stores the at least one patch. The selected logical computer is selected out of multiple logical computers of the ULPR. Different logical computers of the multiple logical computers store operating systems that differ from each other by at least one of identity and version.