On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:17:20PM -0700, Chris (CentOS list) wrote: > I installed CentOS 3.4 (needed an equivalent of RHEL 3.4 for a very > specific purpose - not interested in newer releases at this point) and > downloaded all available up2date stuff. However, Apache is at v2.0.46, php > is at 4.3.4, and so on - which are all quite old versions. I was under the > impression that Red Hat rolls updates into existing versions and what may > show as Apache 2.0.46, may indeed include updates and patches that are > available in the most current release, 2.0.54..... Is this the case here, > with CentOS, or should I be looking somewhere for actual rpms for Apache, > php, and so on, to bring them up to 'latest' standards? If so - where?? > up2date doesn't seem to be loading anything more current than what I > mentioned above. > Security fixes are back-ported, but not new features. > If current patches are rolled into old versions, how does one distinguish > between the "old" Apache 2.0.46 and "new/patched" 2.0.46?? > The RPM version number and the changelogs/patches in the SRPMS. -- Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened