Excerpts from Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)'s message of 2014-09-25 11:16:35 +0200:
> Yesterday a lot of yum-updates ran to update to the latest bash-versions.
> 
> Though my /bin/bash was changed last night, and yum.log shows 3.2.33 should have installed, 
> # /bin/bash --version still shows 3.2.25
> 
> Ofcourse, also # strings /bin/bash  shows old version number.
> 
> Is this a policy NOT to change version-numbers ? 

The version of bash has not changed. Only the release number. i.e additional
patches ontop of bash version 3.2.25.

Run

rpm -q --changelog bash | less

should give a clue as to patches being applied

Steve



> 
> Regards,
> Carel 

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Steve Traylen, CERN IT.