[CentOS] when is the o.s. considered to be at a certain minor version? Or, is it safe to apply only certain package updates from the next release version?

Thu May 10 22:10:05 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
>>
> 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.

They coincide with batches of less critical fixes so if you are
installing a new system it would make sense to install from the new
media instead of the huge update from an earlier version.  But I don't
think you can generalize about them much more than that.

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   Les Mikesell
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