[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 11:18, cfowler wrote:
> To update thos packages, do I just get them all and do rpm -U *.rpm ?

Don't use -U unless you know that you already have them installed.  Use
-F to only 'Freshen' packages that are already installed.

Even easier is to use up2date.  I prefer to use apt-get, but you
actually have to set it up.  It's not hard.

--Michael

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> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 11:15, Fulton Green wrote:
> > 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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