where? security updates for FC4

[Karanbir Singh]

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 
>> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>>> You could upgrade to FC5 and later upgrade to CentOS 5?
>> Will most likely not work as expected : FC5 updates are going to out 
>> strip the E-V-R for similar packages in EL5. And there is the issue of 
>> orphan packages that in turn might be required based on installed role.
> 
> And that won't happen when he stays at FC4 and then upgrades to CentOS 
> when it comes out? I have to say I don't exactly understand what you're 
> saying there though. I guess that if Florin wants a nice clean CentOS 5 
> system it might better to reinstall.

sorry for not being very clear... here is the same thing in -vv mode :)

FC5 installed and then updated with all released packages will contain 
packages that will by the time CentOS-5 is out there, already be newer 
than whats included in CentOS-5. Which will create problems since those 
packages will then not get yum updated to whats in the centos-5 repo's.

Add to this the problem of orphans - there might be packages in the 
installed system that are not included in CentOS-5 at all! There will 
need to be an audit and work out what these packages are - and if they 
are even required on the machine.

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