On 9/14/09, Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com> wrote: > Let say 5.4 goes out today; If I fully update (today) my 5.2 system...will > it > be equivalent to 5.4 (all RPM packages with same version/release number?)? > Or is it possible for the new point release to include NEW packages that > weren't on the base relase (in this case CentOS 5)? Previous replies did not mention that if your box is a server, for security reasons, you should not be running 5.2 at this time. You should be running 5.3 and fully updated. Read the Release Notes, before upgrading.