Topic: centos updates

[lucho115]

since the 4.3 release of centos there are a lot of updates ( kernel for example) that are not part of sme 7 final, so then i look in yum.conf and the centos updates are disable, why?
so i enable it and update my sme7, when its reboot the centos updates was disables again because of templeting, its ok but why are not part by default of the repositories to the sme 7 was allways update when an centos updates is do it?

thanks

[gordonr]

since the 4.3 release of centos there are a lot of updates ( kernel for example) that are not part of sme 7 final, so then i look in yum.conf and the centos updates are disable, why?
so i enable it and update my sme7, when its reboot the centos updates was disables again because of templeting, its ok but why are not part by default of the repositories to the sme 7 was allways update when an centos updates is do it?

thanks

If you enable the CentOS updates repository in the yum_repositories database, it will stay enabled. However, be aware that some CentOS updates may break features of the server (e.g. PPTP) until we have built the relevant modules. That is why the CentOS updates repository is not enabled by default.

All of the CentOS 4.3 updates are available in smeupdates-testing and will soon be pushed to smeupdates. If you want to be really up-to-date, please enable the smeupdates-testing repository.

[lucho115]

be aware that some CentOS updates may break features of the server (e.g. PPTP) until we have built the relevant modules.

OK but if i dont use pptp, only mail and file features, thats dangerous to?

[jsheline2003]

since the 4.3 release of centos there are a lot of updates ( kernel for example) that are not part of sme 7 final, so then i look in yum.conf and the centos updates are disable, why?
so i enable it and update my sme7, when its reboot the centos updates was disables again because of templeting, its ok but why are not part by default of the repositories to the sme 7 was allways update when an centos updates is do it?

thanks

If you enable the CentOS updates repository in the yum_repositories database, it will stay enabled. However, be aware that some CentOS updates may break features of the server (e.g. PPTP) until we have built the relevant modules. That is why the CentOS updates repository is not enabled by default.

All of the CentOS 4.3 updates are available in smeupdates-testing and will soon be pushed to smeupdates. If you want to be really up-to-date, please enable the smeupdates-testing repository.

I enabled the smeupdates-testing repository on my testing server.

[lucho115]

I enabled the smeupdates-testing repository on my testing server.

so do i, but on my production server, because i afraid to have a server exposed to internet without the last rhel updates, iam mistaken or not?
I have no erros on my server yet , its seems to work ok, but iwant to know what are the perfect setting about this issue.