At Sat, 22 May 2010 22:02:34 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, William Warren > <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote: > >> Coming from Gentoo -> Â 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. > >> > >> 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. > >> _______________________________________________ > > I can imagine this works fine with vanilla CentOS, however is this > still possible when you enable third party repositories such as epel? Yes. You do have to be careful and properly setup priorities, etc. and be carefull about what you install from the third party repositories and which ones you have enabled when you do a generic 'yum update'. Generally you only enable third party repositories when you do an 'yum install <some specific package from the third party repository>' and have them all disabled when you do a 'yum update': yum --enablerepo=epel install wine yum --disablerepo=epel update yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install mplayer > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
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