Quoting Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > So, yes there are deeply compelling reasons to upgrade. If you want to
> > have patches for several kernel buffer exploits, as well as many other
> > security and functionality patches, you need to do one thing;
> >
> > yum upgrade, and answer yes.
> >
> > Or even easier;
> > yum -y upgrade.
>
> When I have some time to re-compile VMWare server modules, my graphics
> driver,
> vpn client and wifi driver I may consider updating.  If in the meantime a
> pack
> of ninjas breaks in and owns my box with a local buffer overrun exploit,
> well,
> you can't say I wasn't warned.

It may not work for all things, but have you looked at dkms?
<http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms>

Dag/rpmforge has packages as well.
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