On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: > Coming from Gentoo -> Debian I am to trying to understand the way > CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you > use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade > for a major upgrade. > > In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install > security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way > though is to do at least an yum upgrade every 6 months in order to > upgrade to a point release. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > my mahcines run yum update every night. Security updates are NOT only at the point releases but whenever the upstream releases them.