On 5/14/2010 12:56 PM, sheraz naz wrote:
> Thanks guys, this would work. FYI, as to "why", well it is a mission
> critical system that has been up and running for a while (on 4.1) but
> now we to update it to minimum 4.2 to meet some requirements, so we want
> to keep the changes to a minimum. As for security issues, the way it is
> setup currently that is not an issue, however it will be soon replaced
> with latest version of 5.x
You do know that changes within the minor-number updates are minimal
anyway, don't you? There have been a few notable exceptions in the 5.x
line, but in general RHEL (and thus Centos) rarely has behavior or
compatibility affecting changes in updates. Unless you've already
tested and found something unusual wrong with the up to date 4.x, I'd
say you are taking most of the risk to update to something older (which
almost by definition has known bugs) and not getting the benefit of
having the known bugs fixed.
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Les Mikesell
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