[TriLUG] Really Weird "up2date" RPM info (RedHat)

[David W. Aquilina]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:44:21PM -0500, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> openssh                                 3.6.1p2        33.30.6
> i386  
> openssh-askpass                         3.6.1p2        33.30.6
> i386  
> openssh-askpass-gnome                   3.6.1p2        33.30.6
> i386  
> openssh-clients                         3.6.1p2        33.30.6
> i386  
> openssh-server                          3.6.1p2        33.30.6
> i386  

How are those weird? 

> Now it looks like it wants to patch like, a million packages.

You'd rather updates were never released? ;) 

> What gives? Any insight? Is this normal?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 6 was just recently released. You're probably seeing the updated packages that belong to that update set. 

The release notes are available at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U6-x86-en.html

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David W. Aquilina
david at starkindler.us