[CentOS] "Point Releases" Question

Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 01:30:14 UTC 2009


On 9/14/09, Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let say 5.4 goes out today;  If I fully update (today) my 5.2 system...will
> it
> be equivalent to 5.4 (all RPM packages with same version/release number?)?
> Or is it possible for the new point release to include NEW packages that
> weren't on the base relase (in this case CentOS 5)?

Previous replies did not mention that if your box is a server, for
security reasons, you should not be running 5.2 at this time. You
should be running 5.3 and fully updated.  Read the Release Notes,
before upgrading.



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