> --- Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net> wrote: >> Or if you want to update everything but stay on 4.3 then you could >> exclude centos-release in yum config ... but it is probably >> not to be recommended > > Uh, naive question to the master: why is it any difference at all (if any) > with the "old" centos-release? > > Isn't "yum update" (even with 'centos-release' excluded!) supposed to bring > the *latest* versions of each and every package, no matter it still believes > it's on CentOS 4.3?! > > The repos are the same "4" (not "4.3", not "4.4"), so what's the big deal > about the actual version of CentOS?! > > Or maybe the actual problem will be some broken dependencies!? > > I'm stunned. The difference is that the machine will think it has 4.3 :) Notice I said - 'update everything but stay on 4.3' :) Lance