On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Krieser <k_krieser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
During the support time of the OS, security updates will be made. If not by the package maintainer, then by the upstream Linux vendor.
On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Valentino wrote:
> I'm relatively new to CentOS. I ordered a VPS and requested CentOS 5.5. As I was installing packages, I noticed that some of the versions are pretty old - for example, Postfix is v 2.3 in the repo (and, according to Postfix's website - no longer mainted). Is this a security risk as the current version is 2.7.1?
>
> Building and compiling Postfix from source seems to cause additional problems with yum, so I'm not sure what to do other than perhaps switch to something like Fedora. Perhaps there's a third-party repo with updated packages that I haven't found?
>
> Thanks,
Sometimes, it is by backporting fixes. Sometimes (Firefox for example), an upgrade to a more current version will be made.
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