[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:08, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2002, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> 
> > You are correct.  The errata page doesn't mention most of those files. 
> > But when I run up2date -l this is what I get (see below).  I don't
> > believe I have messed with up2date at all.  I do point to some
> > non-standard apt-get servers, but I use the redhat up2date untouched. 
> > This is an awful lot, though I confess much less than 400.  It is more
> > like 100 updated packages.
> 
> You've broken something! ;-)

I'm prepared to believe that.  :-(
> 
> > arts                                    2.2.2          2
> 
> arts-1.0.0-4 on a fully up2date'd Red Hat Linux 7.3 system
> 
> > dump                                    0.4b25         1.72.0
> 
> Look at the release:  1.72
> 
> That's an errata for Red Hat Linux 7.2
> 
> > e2fsprogs                               1.26           1.72
> > e2fsprogs-devel                         1.26           1.72
> 
> ditto
> 
> > glibc                                   2.2.4          24
> > glibc-common                            2.2.4          24
> > glibc-devel                             2.2.4          24
> 
> RH 7.3 uses glibc-2.2.5.  Again, these are all 7.2.
> 
> Check /etc/redhat-release.  I think you'll find that your box is 7.2, not 
> 7.3.

And yet:

[1001] hirsch>cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
[1002] hirsch>

???

Aha!  I just looked in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid and found this:

<member>
<name>description</name>
<value><string>Red Hat Linux, release 7.3, running on
i686</string></value>
</member>
<member>
<name>os_release</name>
<value><string>7.2</string></value>
</member>

So I seem to think I'm 7.3, but I'm really 7.2.  I wonder how that
happened?

Thanks for putting me on the right track.

--Michael


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