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 .. so if you install 5.0 it is as close a possible to 5.0 upstream.
2. Upstream released a Cubic buttload of updates since the 5.0 release. These where included as updates for CentOS-5 as well ... see these links for all updates released:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-client-workstation-errata.html
All we did was include them as updates ... so CentOS-5 is now all updated, to 4/12/2007.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes