On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I just completed my first 5.2 install. For 'completeness' I 'tested out' yum update.
Guess what? For this minimum install, there were 43Mb of updates to download.
So I went over to my local repo server and setup a /centos/5.2/updates directory and started the rsync to get all the updates:
155 files taking up 943Mb. Already. Wow! Perhaps something to do with the initial build problem? But anyone that does an install from the CDs/DVD and includes OpenOffice, then turns around and updates, is in for a scary supprise. Yet another reason for the local repos....
This is actually perfectly normal. If you install C5.2 from the install media you will get what upstream released a month ago. Between then and now they released different updates. These are not but on the install media but end up in the updates repository to make sure the our and upstreams install media are as identical as possible.
And no, the updates repo only contains updates for the running minor release. So currently it contains updates for 5.2.
Regards, Tim