[CentOS] Re: Worth upgrading desktop to 5.1?

Wed Jan 23 18:51:50 UTC 2008
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 1/23/2008 10:43 AM Barry Brimer spake the following:
> Quoting Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com>:
> 
>>> So, yes there are deeply compelling reasons to upgrade. If you want to
>>> have patches for several kernel buffer exploits, as well as many other
>>> security and functionality patches, you need to do one thing;
>>>
>>> yum upgrade, and answer yes.
>>>
>>> Or even easier;
>>> yum -y upgrade.
>> When I have some time to re-compile VMWare server modules, my graphics
>> driver,
>> vpn client and wifi driver I may consider updating.  If in the meantime a
>> pack
>> of ninjas breaks in and owns my box with a local buffer overrun exploit,
>> well,
>> you can't say I wasn't warned.
> 
> It may not work for all things, but have you looked at dkms?
> <http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms>
> 
> Dag/rpmforge has packages as well.
And 5.x has the newer weak-updates module options.

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