On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:17:20PM -0700, Chris (CentOS list) wrote:
I installed CentOS 3.4 (needed an equivalent of RHEL 3.4 for a very specific purpose - not interested in newer releases at this point) and downloaded all available up2date stuff. However, Apache is at v2.0.46, php is at 4.3.4, and so on - which are all quite old versions. I was under the impression that Red Hat rolls updates into existing versions and what may show as Apache 2.0.46, may indeed include updates and patches that are available in the most current release, 2.0.54..... Is this the case here, with CentOS, or should I be looking somewhere for actual rpms for Apache, php, and so on, to bring them up to 'latest' standards? If so - where?? up2date doesn't seem to be loading anything more current than what I mentioned above.
Security fixes are back-ported, but not new features.
If current patches are rolled into old versions, how does one distinguish between the "old" Apache 2.0.46 and "new/patched" 2.0.46??
The RPM version number and the changelogs/patches in the SRPMS.