[CentOS] Why so many updates already for CentOS 5
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Apr 13 11:03:23 UTC 2007
Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed CentOS 5.
> I issued a yum update, and to my astonishment there are already 75 MB of
> updates.
> And i didn't even installed X.
>
> Why is this ?
These are packages that have been updated since the time CentOS-5's
package tree was frozen upstream. Btw, you might want to check what the
updates are - its possible you have more software installed on the
machine than you need.
- KB
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