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to: Adam
from: Geo
date: 2006-07-12 23:22:30
subject: Re: Yum Update

From: "Geo" 

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:44b506b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> I doubt they're security updates.....in terms of OSS apps in general
> it's the "release early & often" which means that the
apps themselves
> are often updated fairly rapidly. Nothing to do with security,
> everything to do with functionality etc.

I wouldn't be too sure, I've seen an average of about 5 security patches a
week announced on the security lists for some distro's.

> Nope but you can set up lots of repos & then the manager gives you
> series of views (e.g. by repo, by package name etc).

Where do you set this up?

Geo.

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