On 05/10/2012 11:48 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > I regularly update all installed packages. That part I agree with. Sorry for confusion. I do not agree with "minor versions are only snapshots in time when install media is re-generated". I should have left only part of the sentence I disagree with. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant