I've been checking the updates tree for 5.4 and notice that they're empty. I checked 4 or 5 different servers and got the same results. This is, in my experience, unusual; there's typically patches for the new release from day one. But it could be that the 5.4 DVD is up to date.

So I checked one of my machines and what updates it would need against 5.3 vs those that it would need to update to 5.4 (I've not been keeping my patches up to date on this machine; I know... stupid me).

My machine is 33 patches short when configuring yum to a 5.3 tree (base and updates; it'd take 202 patches to take it up to 5.4). Of those 33 patches, 19 are the same from the 5.4 DVD. Of the remaining 14 discrepencies 10 had newer versions on the 5.4 disk. So far, so good.

But 4 packages concern me where it looks like the 5.4 DVD has older versions than the 5.3 updates:

5.3 update:dnsmasq.i386 2.45-1.1.el5_3 5.4 DVD:dnsmasq.i386 2.45-1.el5_2.1

5.3 update:fetchmail.i386 6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1 5.4 DVD:fetchmail.i386 6.3.6-1.1.el5

5.3 update:gnutls.i386 1.4.1-3.el5_3.5 5.4 DVD:gnutls.i386 1.4.1-3.el5_2.1

5.3 update:nspr.i386 4.7.5-1.el5_4 5.4 DVD:nspr.i386 4.7.4-1.el5_3.1

(These are the 4 my machine flagged; there could be other packages of similar concern that haven't hit me yet)

Is this merely a case that the 5.4 updates tree hasn't yet been pushed out and these changes should show up in the near future (when?), have I found a problem, or am I just plain and simple wrong? :-)