[CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

Wed Dec 12 05:06:23 UTC 2007
Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>

On 12/12/2007, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi Amos
>
> My understanding is that unless you choose not to update your system at
> all you can not freeze on a point release.  So install from any 5.*
> media and when you update you will go to the latest point release.
>
> What I would suggest if you are really worried about this is to
> configure /etc/yum.conf with a keepcache higher than 1 so that if an
> update is done you can roll back the rpm
>
> I hope this helps

Hi Clint,

Thanks for your reply. That answers my question.

I'll just try to avoid updates for now.

Cheers,

--Amos