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Security updates for old Red Hat releases

Security updates for old Red Hat releases

Posted Nov 20, 2003 12:11 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Security updates for old Red Hat releases by simlo
Parent article: Security updates for old Red Hat releases

I think you should have had updated to rh7.0, then rh7.1, rh7.2, etc. It is possible, however, this far from the machine it is quite risky. I must admit that it's much easier with Debian to issue an apt-get dist-upgrade, but then you should still reboot if e.g. glibc is upgraded.

Bye,NAR


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