[ale] Why so many updates to RedHat?

[cfowler]

up2date only shows me 2 packages  Kernel and Kernel-soruce

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
> 
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