On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Nauman ul-Haque wrote about, problem with updates:
> Hi,
> I have RH 6.1 working on my machine. I wanted to patch up my different
> security related bugy packages. Now I went upto the Red Hat site
> -->support--> then chose EH 6.1 then -->securtiy advisors. Now I can find
> lots of packages where which are to be updated cuz of security reasons. Now
> for example they have just found this bug in the ftp deamon, now if I update
> using the 6.1's updates, are they enough for me? or do I have to get the
> updates for 6.2(because they are teh latest ones)? if yes, then why should I
> even get 6.1's? I can get 6.2's and update with the latest ones. But then
> whats the use of keeping 6.1's updates there?
As i see it you need 6.1 updates, RPM can be quite unforgiving if there are
descepancies in version numbers or lib versions.
If there is a .LSM file read it it will possably answer the above questions.
Further more i belive redhat.com has a page dedicated to this srt of stuff.
>
> I know I have tries my bes to confuse you, but I am pretty confused about it
> myself. So please if you understand my question do answer.
>
> Thank you
> Nauman
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