On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Steve Huff wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>> Errmm 4.3 updates give 4.4 ??? >> Hey, I am seeing 195 updates available. That does NOT sound like a a few >> patches. More like a total replacement. > what it sounds like you want is to stay at 4.3 but still receive... > something? security updates? updates that are magically guaranteed not to > break anything? > > i'm not sure there's a good way to accomplish that. i'd recommend not > running `yum update` until other early adopters have figured out all the > various pitfalls and have documented workarounds. > This issue will be resolved upstream when following the release of 4.5 they start to maintain point releases that have backported security updates - 4.5.1 4.5.2 etc - CentOS will follow suit ... > -steve > > p.s. i recall an announcement a while back that there RH created additional > up2date channels that distribute noncritical fixes and feature enhancements > in real time rather than waiting until the point release, but i don't > remember how to access them. anyone? fasttrack repo (= upstream fastrack) Regards Lance