On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Digimer <linux at alteeve.com> wrote: > > So long as I can do a 'yum update' and not get the next y-stream > packages until the actual y-stream is released proper, But you also don't get potentially critical security updates until the full release. That is, yum update won't give you anything. > I am happy. In > other words, so long as the stability of my nodes is not effected in any > way, and compatibility with upstream also remains, I am happy. :) What stability problems would you expect from updates beyond a point release? The whole point of an 'enterprise' distribution is the effort they make to not break api's across a whole major-rev's life. Would an upstream system break if you selectively update packages beyond a point release without doing a full update? > I'm ashamed to say that I neglected to do so. I saw kernel oopses while > working on other things and didn't get back to them... I'll be sure to > file a bug next I see it. That's ummm, strange. Wouldn't you be running that kernel even if the whole release had been completed? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com'