[CentOS] CentOS newbie question - updates

[Alan Hodgson]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:17:20PM -0700, Chris (CentOS list) wrote:
> I installed CentOS 3.4 (needed an equivalent of RHEL 3.4 for a very 
> specific purpose - not interested in newer releases at this point) and 
> downloaded all available up2date stuff.  However, Apache is at v2.0.46, php 
> is at 4.3.4, and so on - which are all quite old versions.  I was under the 
> impression that Red Hat rolls updates into existing versions and what may 
> show as Apache 2.0.46, may indeed include updates and patches that are 
> available in the most current release, 2.0.54.....  Is this the case here, 
> with CentOS, or should I be looking somewhere for actual rpms for Apache, 
> php, and so on, to bring them up to 'latest' standards?  If so - where??  
> up2date doesn't seem to be loading anything more current than what I 
> mentioned above.
> 

Security fixes are back-ported, but not new features.

> If current patches are rolled into old versions, how does one distinguish 
> between the "old" Apache 2.0.46 and "new/patched" 2.0.46??
>

The RPM version number and the changelogs/patches in the SRPMS.


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