From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: RPMs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:05:37 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EEDF8E1.1060502@bcgreen.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Anna G. Zapata" , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org It's not clear from your email whether or not you know this, but -- once you install an RPM, you do NOT need to keep the .rpm file arond any more. other than .newrpm and .oldrpm configfile backups, RPM updates should not occupy that much space on your system. Also: you only need to install updates for RPMs that you already have installed. If you don't have xyz-1.0.rpm, then there's no reason to install the xyz-1.2.rpm security update for it. I have some scripts to help automate that process for you if you'd like. Anna G. Zapata wrote: > I need more information on RPMs. I know there are many security updates > every week. However, I am running out of disk space on my linux box and > can't get all those RPM updates on there. Do I need all of them? How do I > know what I need and what I don't? > > Thanks! > > Anna G. Zapata - GSEC, MCIS > University of Denver > University Technology Services - Network Security > (303) 871-2009 (phone) > (303) 871-4135 (fax) > azapata@du.edu (email) -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bring it to life. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs