3 May
2006
3 May
'06
8:09 a.m.
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 21:32 -0500, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu wrote:
Why if openldap has version OpenLDAP-2.3.20(stable), centos (redhat) is still shipping version 2.2?
Basically, the goal of the upstream vendor (and thus CentOS) is not to track the latest and greatest packages, but to provide a stable package set. If new versions of a program are released with security fixes, these fixes are backported to the version that the upstream provider provides. Just throwing in a new version as an update to a stable distribution release could cause all kinds of havoc. The policy of the upstream provider is written down in more detail at:
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html
-- Daniel