[CentOS] centos updates and kernel patches

[John R Pierce]

On 7/14/2014 10:04 PM, Dilip Basavaraju wrote:
>          I am using centos 6.5 minimal version, some of the updates may not be relevant for my OS. 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 will only update the packages installed on your system, so if 
you've installed certain packages, then its presumed that any 
fixes/updates to those packages are relevant.

the descriptions of what the various updates fix are documented on 
redhat's update bulletins.




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