[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Tue Jul 9 11:15:27 EDT 2002


How are you updating them? ftp://updates.RedHat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/ only has
fifty or so updated packages. OTOH, RH did release a new beta, and some of
those packages might have spilled over into the RHN update service offering.

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:08:51AM -0400, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I've been out of town for two weeks.  Today I started to update my
> RedHat 7.3 system and found that there were over 400 updated packages? 
> A week ago when I updated my Dad's system there were only 100 packages,
> or so, and I think I had already put most of them on my work machine.
> 
> Did I miss something big?  Why are there so many new packages for RedHat
> all of a sudden?

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