At Sat, 22 May 2010 21:39:46 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Coming from Gentoo -> Debian I am to trying to understand the way
> CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you
> use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade
> for a major upgrade.
I am not sure if Gentoo or Debian even have 'point releases', at least
in the sense that RedHat has done things since way back when.
>
> In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install
> security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way
> though is to do at least an yum upgrade every 6 months in order to
> upgrade to a point release.
No, you you really should run yum update more frequently. Every 6
months (or so), 'yum update' will automagically upgrade to a point
release. I am not really sure it really makes any sense to stay at a
given point release, esp. sice point releases are not some sort of
major new version or anything -- they are more a consolidation of many
small updates bundled together has a kind of 'update milestone' and are
more a matter of being a conveinent place (in 'time') to burn a new
batch of iso images.
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