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Asked: 2012-08-13 03:05:36 +0800 CST

Apache Security Patch update in centos version 5.4

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I am running centos version 5.4 with apache version 2.2.3, I want to get latest security patches for this apache version.

I checked the last update for apache via

rpm -q --changelog httpd | less

and it shows

Thu Mar 25 2010 Karanbir Singh <[email protected]> 2.2.3-31.el5.centos.4 - Roll in CentOS Branding

Thu Mar 04 2010 Joe Orton <[email protected]> - 2.2.3-31.4 - require and BR a version of OpenSSL with the secure reneg API (#567980) .......

Now when I run yum update httpd , it says

No Packages marked for Update.

So is there any way I can update to the latest patch from centos? also I do not want to update from third party repositories.

Regards

apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you're actually running CentOS 5.4, you may want to consider updating to 5.8. The httpd package, for example, has updates as recent as early 2012.

    If yum update is not updating anything, it's because the repository you're pointing at does not have anything more recent. This suggests that you're local yum configuration points explicitly at CentOS 5.4 rather than more generically to CentOS 5. Take a look at your yum configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo; it should look something like this:

    [base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

# ...and a few more entries...

    If your mirrorlist entries look different, or if you're pointing at an explicit URL using baseurl instead of mirrorlist, try updating the entries to look like this and running yum update again.

    This file (/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo) is installed by the centos-release package, so you could also consider grabbing the package from a mirror and installing it manually, then running yum update.

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  2. The latest version from the CentOS 5.x branch is 5.8. Your install is quite old.

    Could you try yum check-update ? If not try, yum clean all and try again.

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