On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:20:37PM +0100, Dan Hatton wrote:
I'm not at all sure Linux has that big an advantage here. The last three or four evenings, I've had apt-get busily downloading some insane number of megabytes of kernel images that have been updated due to security flaws. Admittedly, this problem is partly of my own making (I decided hard drive space was not a scarce resource, and installed some kernels, and a lot of other stuff, that I don't use,) but I have a very complete Windows install too, and can't recall Windows update ever clogging up my dial-up connection quite that much.
We have 2 issues here, one is if you have lots of unused kernel images (you can only have one kernel booted at a time right?) then you would be best off removing the unused ones rather than the upgrading them. (also they are possibly taking up space because of the modules directories check /lib/modules/$kernel-name).
The second thing is that I setup a windows software update services server recently for just windows 2000 and that insisted on downloading around 1.5GB of updates (and that was only the security updates, I didn't get hold of the recommended updates due to the time i had available). I am not sure how big the debian security archive is but I am sure it is not that much!
Adam