On 4 Apr 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > some of the allegedly newer packages in the shrike updates > > repository at RH don't appear to be any newer than what came > > with the original distro. kernel-2.4.20-8, samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0, > > among others. > > These are errata for the boxed set. The ISO files distributed via RHN > already have these updates included. But since the boxed set was > finalized earlier, they'll need these updates. > > > > > what does this mean? am i misreading something? > > You apparently didn't read the errata notices for those packages. ok, i feel properly chastised now. :-) rday