Let me guess, you are using Ubuntu Linux, right? And you are worried that because python's version number is reported as 2.5.2 that you are missing security fixes from 2.5.3 and 2.5.4, right?
Let me put your fears to rest. When the Ubuntu security team (or the Debian security team) backports security fixes to a package in their stable release, they do not increment the version number. If you check the changelog for Ubuntu's python2.5 package (which you can find in /usr/share/doc/python2.5/changelog.Debian.gz) you will see that they have indeed backported the security fixes for both CVE-2008-2316 and CVE-2008-1679 --- James Paige On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 07:23:33PM -0800, Yanom Mobis wrote: > is it possible to install python2.5.4 on top of 2.5.2 ( ./configure && make > && sudo make install ) > on Linux? > > Will this break any packages? > > > > >
