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

Wed Dec 12 17:51:54 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

> 
> What Redhat is now also going to offer in about 6 months time, is the 
> ability for people to just stay within one branch of the release ( so, 
> people who installed 5.1 might want to stay within the 5.1 package set 
> and not get any enhancements, or bugfix's or package updates - they just 
> get a very small subset of security fixs ). And to do that you would 
> need to put your machine into a Branch, which will be called 
> 5.x.<something>. ( eg. for the entire life of 5.1.* your redhat-release 
> file on centos is going to say : CentOS release 5.1.z (Branch) )
> 
> If you still dont get it, dont worry - just sit back for 6 months. The 
> situation will hopefully clear itself out in that time. There is nothing 
> that needs to be done now, and there is no 5.0.* Branch.
> 
I don't see a great benefit for more than a very small subset of users with 
this. Most people shouldn't even worry about it. If you need this option, you 
probably are already paying a support contract, and your feedback probably got 
the ball rolling in the first place.

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