On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:51:51 -0800 Mitch Patenaude <mitch at rapleaf.com> wrote: > without having to change versions. Upgrading to 5.6 would likely > involve upgrading several core packages (mysql, ruby, python, bind, > even glibc and the kernel). Is this a pipe dream? Shouldn't be. I never think of point releases as separate versions and always upgrade (after installing on a test box to see everything still works as expected :) ). CentOS/upstream provider ensure that software in point releases are the same major versions. The point releases *are* the security updates. Sometimes upgraded packages are made available, as in the case of php, but the new version has a different package name. ie; the php package is 5.1, but the updated release's package name was php53 (or php52) and I think was only available through the Extras repo. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd (04) 460-2531 : (021) 295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110127/4664394b/attachment-0005.sig>