[CentOS] release/update question

Kai Schaetzl maillists at conactive.com
Tue Jun 2 12:31:19 UTC 2009


Matthias Leopold wrote on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:56:47 +0200:

> is it normal behavior that through the use of "yum update" systems are
> forced to follow the point releases of a major release (5.0 -> 5.1 ->
> 5.2, etc)? is there a way and would it make sense to stay within one
> particular release and receive only security updates?

The whole thing is an evergoing update process from 5.0 release to EOL. 
Point releases are just freezes in time. There are no "special" updates 
for point releases, only for the "current" release.

Kai

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