All, I have a CentOS 4 system I need to update OpenSSH on. Most of my experience has been on slackware and I am new to using yum and packages. I ran yum and it tells me that my current installed version is 3.9 patch level 1. It also said that there are no updates for it. I did a google for it but every link I saw that seemed to point to info about an rpm for 4.3 came up not found. Is there a better yum repository for finding these packages or will I have to build my own? If so How do I do that? Also if I upgrade will I break any other app that might be built with the older version? Is there a yum / rpm option that tells me what other packages/binaries are dependent on the installed version of openssh Thanks Doug -- What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul?
remember RH/centos does backpatching.. so while you are running an older version as long as the main version of centos is being supported (which 4 still is) you are ok. http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html On 4/12/06, Doug Lochart <dlochart at gmail.com> wrote:> All, > > I have a CentOS 4 system I need to update OpenSSH on. Most of my > experience has been on slackware and I am new to using yum and > packages. I ran yum and it tells me that my current installed version > is 3.9 patch level 1. It also said that there are no updates for it. > I did a google for it but every link I saw that seemed to point to > info about an rpm for 4.3 came up not found. > > Is there a better yum repository for finding these packages or will I > have to build my own? If so How do I do that? > > Also if I upgrade will I break any other app that might be built with > the older version? Is there a yum / rpm option that tells me what > other packages/binaries are dependent on the installed version of > openssh > > Thanks > > Doug > > > -- > What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul? > > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > http://www.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev >-- http://www.zcentric.com/wiki My Linux Howto/Tips Wiki
>remember RH/centos does backpatching.. so while you are running an >older version as long as the main version of centos is being supported >(which 4 still is) you are ok.> http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.htmlI found that informative but I am still stuck on what to do. How do I get these security fixes to make my 3.9 equal to 4.3 ??? I am expecting yum or rpm to tell me if there is an update. Since there is no update available should I be assume that the fixes in 4.3 are backported to my 3.9?? Sorry to sound like a dunce but rp etc is totally new to me. I always use slackware and do everything from source. Doug On 4/12/06, Doug Lochart <dlochart at gmail.com> wrote:> All, > > I have a CentOS 4 system I need to update OpenSSH on. Most of my > experience has been on slackware and I am new to using yum and > packages. I ran yum and it tells me that my current installed version > is 3.9 patch level 1. It also said that there are no updates for it. > I did a google for it but every link I saw that seemed to point to > info about an rpm for 4.3 came up not found. > > Is there a better yum repository for finding these packages or will I > have to build my own? If so How do I do that? > > Also if I upgrade will I break any other app that might be built with > the older version? Is there a yum / rpm option that tells me what > other packages/binaries are dependent on the installed version of > openssh > > Thanks > > Doug > > > -- > What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul?-- What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul?