On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> Greetings folks,
> 
> Apologies in advance if this have been discussed before, I might have
> missed it.
> 
> I have a machine on SL 4.0.  I noticed a few days ago a lot of update
> where available via yum.  From what I understand,
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/, which
> /etc/yum.repo.d/sl4x.repo specify, now appear to contain SL release 4.3.
>  I would rather stay on 4.0 to keep the amount of update and possible
> disruption low, so I changed the file back to specify
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40.
> 
> Can we expect security updates for the 4.0 release ?  If not, I will
> move back to the 4x repo, but this would require a little planning (new
> glibc -> reboot, etc).

Security Updates will continue for 4.0 .  If you want the "bug fixes and 
new enhancements" then you will have to add them either manually by 
picking from the

   41, 42 , 43, 44, 4x repositories depending on which packages you want.

We made the 4x yum.conf so that uses that wanted to always be at the 
latest would just get there (expect for the kernel).  We have always had 
the individual releases independent.

-Connie Sieh

 > 
> Thanks !
> 
> Etienne
>