[CentOS] centos updates and kernel patches

Tue Jul 15 05:26:29 UTC 2014
Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>

On 2014-07-15, Dilip Basavaraju <DILIP.KUMARB at LNTTECHSERVICES.COM> wrote:
>         I am using centos 6.5 minimal version, some of the updates may not be relevant for my OS.

I believe "yum update" updates only currently-installed packages, so
they should all be relevant.

> So I need to verify and decide the patches and accordingly need to update my OS.
>         Please is there any way for this?

yum update also prompts you to confirm the install before proceeding.
But as I wrote earlier, "yum update kernel*" will attempt to update just
the kernel packages (and prompt for confirmation before installing).

--keith

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