[CentOS] Download of updates

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 18:59:15 UTC 2007


On Dec 4, 2007 1:45 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have noticed that Fedora updates with "yum update"  often runs into 500+MB
> of downloads.
>
> I would like to know from the members of this list as to how much should a
> CentOs update size would be if I download a  DVD ISO image and install with


CentOS updates are generally not that large. Usually on the order of
5-25MB unless there's an openoffice update, or a quarterly update such
as the current move from 5.0 to 5.1. Those can get to be pretty large,
but my desktop migration was only around 145MB.



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