On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote: > > I can not agree with this. Minor versions also introduce newer kernels > (hardware support) and some changes in packages that are not done during > regular update releases. Certain technological previews are also > introduced and so on. Theoretically the updates between minor versions are supposed to be security and critical bug fixes while the minor version updates batch in less critical fixes and some new things. > If you were right, then all those packages would just be shoved into > "updates" repository. They pretty much are. You should be able to 'yum update' any specific package to any newer rev. regardless of the revisions of the rest of the system, and the rpm dependencies will pull anything else that must be updated to match. However, I've seldom seen any reason to not stay close to up to date on everything. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com