Warren, I was not suggesting that was the policy. I was aware that the rpm update was optional. I was just reiterating my agreement with the policy. On redhat 9/FC1 I have upgraded all the packages from the fedora.us patches update. Have not experienced any problems. --Luke Warren Togami said: > Lucas Albers wrote: >> If it works, don't touch it, even if it is slightly buggy. >> Change bad. >> I don't want to change anything on my 7.3 boxes, I just want to get off >> them, and have them work until I switch off them. >> > > Nobody ever suggested upgrading rpm on 7.x. RH8 is the very broken one. > RH9 is the somewhat broken one. -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana