on 1/23/2008 10:43 AM Barry Brimer spake the following:
Quoting Sean Carolan scarolan@gmail.com:
So, yes there are deeply compelling reasons to upgrade. If you want to have patches for several kernel buffer exploits, as well as many other security and functionality patches, you need to do one thing;
yum upgrade, and answer yes.
Or even easier; yum -y upgrade.
When I have some time to re-compile VMWare server modules, my graphics driver, vpn client and wifi driver I may consider updating. If in the meantime a pack of ninjas breaks in and owns my box with a local buffer overrun exploit, well, you can't say I wasn't warned.
It may not work for all things, but have you looked at dkms? http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms
Dag/rpmforge has packages as well.
And 5.x has the newer weak-updates module options.