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smusumeche
Asked: 2011-04-13 07:20:33 +0800 CST

yum suddenly shows 131 updates available

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I am running CentOS and have yum-updatesd running everyday and notifying me of any updates. A few days ago, yum started telling me that there are 131 updates available. What would cause it to do this? Was the CentOS repo just updated?

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3 Answers

  1. Centos 5.6 Was released on the 8th April 2011 which is a major upgrade hence the large number of updates yum is reporting

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  2. centos 5.6 was released last week so its more than likely this is the number of packages for update to 5.6, for good security i would recommend updating

    to list your updates type

    yum list updates
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  3. Best Answer

    Saw the same thing today, I've got 211. It's because of the new release of CentOS.

    Major changes in CentOS 5.6 compared to CentOS 5.5 include:

    • ext4 is now a fully supported file system
    • libvirt was updated to 0.8.2
    • bind was updated to 9.7 and supports NSEC3 now.
    • ebtables was added
    • php53 is available as a php replacement.
    • System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) has been added.

    Other upgrades include newer version of several wireless drivers, Samba3x, ghostscript, LVM, mod_nss, subversion and gcc, plus others.

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