Johnny Hughes wrote:
Because ... CentOS is enterprise software ... if something works, we don't normally upgrade it UNLESS there is security issue or some other very compelling reason to upgrade. I haven't looked, but doesn't feodora 9 use yum 3.2 ... centos-5 uses yum-3.0. That in itself might be a good reason not to upgrade. The goals of CentOS and Fedora are quite different. CentOS is designed to install, configure, and use for 7 years. Our users expect that once configure and installed, they can develop scipts / programs / business intelligence related software with the distro, ans that their developed software will work until they decide to upgrade to a new MAJOR branch of CentOS. CentOS does not normally upgrade things JUST because there is a newer version available. This is especially true in the Extras and Base/Updates repos.
Just like my previous email about XFCE (4.4.2 is a bug fix release of 4.4.1), version changes in the style of 2.0.x to 2.0.y are not upgrades but bug fixes.
For example OpenOffice.Org 2.0.4 we currently have in comparison to OpenOffice.Org 2.0.3.
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