On Wednesday 21 October 2009 14:46:05 Robert Heller wrote: > Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point > releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something > special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own > before the main update -- this was in the update announcement). Was that update-glibc-first thing really necessary? I did see the update announcement, but long after I actually issued a simple "yum update" on my server, and everything went smoothly. I did not see any problem. So was updating glibc separately just a precaution measure, or was I just lucky not to run into issues? P.S. Sorry to jump in the thread... Best, :-) Marko