wolf2k5 wrote:
> It looks like RH finally decided to bump up the base version of some
> packages (e.g.mysql: 5.0.22-2.1.0.1 -> 5.0.45-6.el5) instead of
> backporting fixes to the older base version.

Note that it's a minor version bump, they're both 5.0.x versions. They
did this before with mysql in RHEL4 (4.1.7 -> 4.1.10a -> 4.1.12 ->
4.1.20). My guess is that it's a fairly special case; as I understand
it, MySQL AB tend to be quite careful about their security and bug
fixing (and not introducing major new features), so updating to a newer
version in the same release train is likely easier than / as safe as
backporting fixes.

Anyway, as I mentioned, they've upgraded mysql this way before, so it
isn't a sudden update policy shift.

> Will we see more of this?
> For starters, it would be great to see the current PHP 5.1.x version
> upgraded to 5.2.x.

I very much doubt that'll happen, so don't get your hopes up. 5.1 to 5.2
is a major bump, with incompatibilities that can break existing scripts.

--
HJ

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