On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:42:09PM +0200, Joakim Sernbrant enlightened us: > Why was the update to 4.4 automatic? Having a lot of new features > automatically installed it not why we run an "enterprise" OS. I would > like to be able to plan and test that kind of events. > Because CentOS 4 is CentOS 4. The point releases are just milestones during which more than just security fixes are released. This is identical to how upstream releases. If you don't want surprises, I suggest you don't turn yum on to auto update and point it at mirrors you don't control. > A better way of handling it would be what I am used with from another > "enterprise" distro: > The best way of handling it is for you to have your own repository into which you put updates you have tested in your sandbox/testbed. QED -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263