[CentOS] Why so many updates already for CentOS 5

[John Summerfield]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:03 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> 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
> 
> To explain this a little more ... here goes:
> 
> 1.  People want the versions of files on the CentOS to discs to match
> the upstream versions for software control 

Some do, some don't. Some download at work and install at home. There's 
75 Mbytes of updates wouldn't get to my machines at home.
An updates repo in the collection would be a handy compromise, I think I 
suggested this a while ago.




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