Re: upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/14/2010 1:05 PM, sheraz naz wrote:
> James,
>
> Your comment about package manager (yum etc) not differentiating between
> 4.2 and 4.8 is the reason why I was asking the original question. If I
> just upgrade it will patch it up all the way to 4.8 which I am trying to
> avoid (trying to get least changes as possible).However Kwan's idea
> would work, I was hoping that I was wrong and you could tell up2date/yum
> etc to only upgrade one minor release or only patch up to a specific
> release and not above that.

If you are trying to fix a specific problem, you could let yum update 
only packages that you specify.  And you'd have the chance to decline if 
you see it is planning to bring in unwanted things as dependencies.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


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