[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?
Michael Hirsch
mhirsch at nubridges.com
Tue Jul 9 13:50:02 EDT 2002
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 12:56, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On 9 Jul 2002, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > I've tried it two ways. First, with apt-get. I point to a mirror of
> > the redhat update server that has been configured to serve apt-get. It
> > reports the actual number of updates. I figured that there must be some
> > mistake, so I tried up2date and it also indicated a lot of updates--way
> > more than I expected since I think my machine was pretty up to date 2
> > weeks ago.
>
> Look at http://www.redhat.com/errata to double-check, but most of those
> packages below have NOT been errata'ed for 7.3. Either you've hit an
> apt-get repository that has non-standard packages; or you've hit the beta
> up2date, not the 7.3 up2date; or your box is running 7.2, not 7.3; or your
> rpm db / up2date db is corrupt; or something similar.
>
> later,
> chris
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.
Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
LPRng 3.7.4 28.1
Mesa 3.4.2 10
Mesa-devel 3.4.2 10
XFree86-100dpi-fonts 4.1.0 25
XFree86-75dpi-fonts 4.1.0 25
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts 4.1.0 25
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts 4.1.0 25
XFree86-devel 4.1.0 25
XFree86-libs 4.1.0 25
XFree86-tools 4.1.0 25
XFree86-twm 4.1.0 25
Xconfigurator 4.9.39 2
apache-devel 1.3.22 6
arts 2.2.2 2
at 3.1.8 23
authconfig 4.1.19.2 1
bind-utils 9.2.1 0.7x
binutils 2.11.90.0.8 12
cvs 1.11.1p1 7
cyrus-sasl 1.5.24 23
cyrus-sasl-devel 1.5.24 23
cyrus-sasl-md5 1.5.24 23
cyrus-sasl-plain 1.5.24 23
docbook-utils 0.6.9 2.1
docbook-utils-pdf 0.6.9 2.1
dump 0.4b25 1.72.0
e2fsprogs 1.26 1.72
e2fsprogs-devel 1.26 1.72
fetchmail 5.9.0 11
foomatic 1.1 0.20011218.3
gdb 5.1 1
glibc 2.2.4 24
glibc-common 2.2.4 24
glibc-devel 2.2.4 24
groff 1.17.2 7.0.2
groff-perl 1.17.2 7.0.2
imlib 1.9.13 3.7.x
imlib-devel 1.9.13 3.7.x
jadetex 3.11 4
libpcap 0.6.2 11.7.2.0
libxml2 2.4.10 0.7x.2
libxslt 1.0.7 2
modutils 2.4.13 0.7.1
mozilla 0.9.9 12.7.2
mozilla-mail 0.9.9 12.7.2
mozilla-psm 0.9.9 12.7.2
mpg321 0.2.9 2.5
nfs-utils 0.3.1 13.7.2.1
nscd 2.2.4 24
nss_ldap 189 2
openldap 2.0.21 1
openldap-clients 2.0.21 1
openldap-devel 2.0.21 1
openssh 3.1p1 6
openssh-askpass 3.1p1 6
openssh-clients 3.1p1 6
pam 0.75 19
pam-devel 0.75 19
perl 5.6.1 26.72.3
pine 4.44 1.72.0
popt 1.6.4 7x
ppp 2.4.1 3
printconf 0.3.61 4.1
printconf-gui 0.3.61 4.1
python-xmlrpc 1.5.1 7.x.3
raidtools 0.90 24
redhat-config-network 0.9.10 2
rhn_register 2.7.9 7.x.2
rhn_register-gnome 2.7.9 7.x.2
rmt 0.4b25 1.72.0
rpm 4.0.4 7x
rpm-build 4.0.4 7x
rpm-devel 4.0.4 7x
rpm-python 4.0.4 7x
rsync 2.4.6 13
sane-backends-devel 1.0.5 4.1
sharutils 4.2.1 8.7.x
stunnel 3.22 1
sudo 1.6.5p2 1.7x.1
tetex-afm 1.0.7 38.2
tetex-dvilj 1.0.7 38.2
tetex-dvips 1.0.7 38.2
tetex-fonts 1.0.7 38.2
tetex-latex 1.0.7 38.2
tetex-xdvi 1.0.7 38.2
tmpwatch 2.8.1 1
ttfonts-ja 1.0 7
ucd-snmp 4.2.5 7.72.0
up2date 2.7.61 7.x.2
up2date-gnome 2.7.61 7.x.2
usermode 1.46 1
util-linux 2.11f 17
vim-common 6.0 7.13
vim-minimal 6.0 7.13
xsane 0.82 3.1
zlib 1.1.3 25.7
zlib-devel 1.1.3 25.7
The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:
Name Version Rel Reason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
XFree86 4.1.0 25 Config
modified
XFree86-xdm 4.1.0 25 Config
modified
XFree86-xfs 4.1.0 25 Config
modified
apache 1.3.22 6 Config
modified
ghostscript 6.51 16.2 Config
modified
initscripts 6.43 1 Config
modified
iptables 1.2.4 2 Config
modified
kernel 2.4.9 34 Pkg
name/pattern
kernel-headers 2.4.9 34 Pkg
name/pattern
kernel-smp 2.4.9 34 Pkg
name/pattern
logwatch 2.6 1 Config
modified
mutt 1.2.5.1 1 Config
modified
openssh-server 3.1p1 6 Config
modified
sane-backends 1.0.5 4.1 Config
modified
tetex 1.0.7 38.2 Config
modified
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