[CentOS] Samba Update

Ralph Angenendt ra+centos at br-online.de
Mon Aug 8 08:12:44 UTC 2005


Mike Zanker wrote:
> On 7/8/05 16:52, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> > First I'd recommend upgrading to CentOS 3.5, as it has a number of
> > security fixes not in 3.3.
> 
> Does it? What's the difference between an up-to-date 3.3 installation
> and an up-to-date 3.5 installation? 3.3 is just a symlink to 3.5 on the
> mirrors, from what I can see.

It is two "minor releases" further. If /etc/redhat-release tells you,
that you still have CentOS 3.3, then you haven't updated your system for
close to 6 months - so a "fully patched" 3.3 cannot be "fully patched" -
as it will become a 3.5 system just by running "yum update".

Besides the security updates RedHat sometimes also pushes functioniality
upgrades with the minor releases.

Ralph
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