Lanny Marcus wrote: > I'm updating my Desktop and curious as to the reason for the huge > difference in size, between the oldest kernel, which will be removed, > and the newest one that will be installed. Question: Did they remove a > lot of things from the kernel or rewrite it much more efficiently? > TIA. > > Installing: > kernel i686 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 updates 15 > M >
That's the download size - the size of the compressed RPM package. > Removing: > kernel i686 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 installed 40 > M and that's the installed size once the package has been decompressed. So no change in size, really :) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
