Hello group,

I have a CentOS 5.5 server freshly installed.

When I do a yum updated package_name, I have referenced to 5.6.  Why?

Here is an example:

yum update vsftpd --changelog
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, security
addons/other                                                                                                     |  192 B     00:00    
base/other_db                                                                                                    |  11 MB     00:50    
extras/other_db                                                                                                  | 442 kB     00:01    
updates/other_db                                                                                                 | 2.8 MB     00:11    
http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/5.6/updates/x86_64/repodata/other.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
updates/other_db                                                                                                 | 2.7 MB     00:22    
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.science.uottawa.ca
 * base: mirror.science.uottawa.ca
 * extras: mirror.science.uottawa.ca
 * updates: mirror.science.uottawa.ca
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vsftpd.x86_64 0:2.0.5-16.el5_6.1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Changes in packages about to be updated:

vsftpd-2.0.5-16.el5_6.1.x86_64
* Fri Mar  4 17:00:00 2011 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 2.0.5-16.el5_6.1
- Resolves: #681893 - CVE-2011-0762 vsftpd: remote DoS via crafted glob pattern

* Thu Apr  8 18:00:00 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala@redhat.com> - 2.0.5-16.el5_5.1
- Resolves: #580055 - vsftpd prematurely closes connection just before processing of post-auth command
- Resolves: #580396 - vsftpd issues in RHEL5


Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================
 Package                      Arch                         Version                                  Repository                     Size
========================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 vsftpd                       x86_64                       2.0.5-16.el5_6.1                         updates                       139 k

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================
Install       0 Package(s)
Upgrade       1 Package(s)

Total download size: 139 k


The version installed is 5.5:

[root@future_qljnl51p yum.repos.d]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID:    CentOS
Description:    CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Release:    5.5
Codename:    Final



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Bernard