On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been getting a message of a security update with 179 packages. > > > > I am surprised by the huge number of updates. Is this a new version of > EL5? > > > > I am concerned that with such an update, my system may become > > unstable. How can I revert to a previous known state? > > > > If there is a place where I can find these answers, just point me to > > it (search keywords are fine too). > > There was a recent release of RHEL5.3, number of updates that would affect > you would vary based on your install, but thats close to what we showed > here. If you want more info I've some links below, or you can call > support, or your TAM if you have one. > > > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/rhel_5_3.html?intcmp=70160000000Hh4WAAS > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Release_Notes/index.html > > I personally put as much concern into a dot release as regular updates. > Read the release notes and then test it on a spare box and make sure > nothing breaks *shrug* > > -greg > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list Thanks. In particular for the secition on `Known issues'. I may ask my vendor (Dell) to see what is their experience for my hardware (I saw an entry for NVIDIA graphics card for example) Mirko
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