On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:51:51 -0800 Mitch Patenaude mitch@rapleaf.com wrote:
without having to change versions. Upgrading to 5.6 would likely involve upgrading several core packages (mysql, ruby, python, bind, even glibc and the kernel). Is this a pipe dream?
Shouldn't be. I never think of point releases as separate versions and always upgrade (after installing on a test box to see everything still works as expected :) ).
CentOS/upstream provider ensure that software in point releases are the same major versions.
The point releases *are* the security updates.
Sometimes upgraded packages are made available, as in the case of php, but the new version has a different package name. ie; the php package is 5.1, but the updated release's package name was php53 (or php52) and I think was only available through the Extras repo.