On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:13:04 -0700, David Demner wrote: > > > I have a question about up2date. I recently noticed that the most recent version of OpenSSL available on their website was version 0.9.7c (which purportedly contains important bugfixes) but the most recent version available on RHN was version 0.9.7a. Same thing with BIND (version 9.2.2 on their website and version 9.2.1 on RHN). > > http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html > > - -- > Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore. Also the Michael who can be terse to a fault. It is safe to apply Redhat updates, it is a good idea to apply Redhat updates. Redhat is very conservative about not breaking things, their updates are only bug fixes, and mostly only really important bugs get updates. So what does that have to do with anything? Well, the only way Redhat updates can be so safe is that they don't add features, because features can and do break things. So what Redhat does is "backport" fixes from the current version to the current Redhat version, just fixing the bug and not changing anything else. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
