[CentOS] How do point releases work?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 15:18:52 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 06:01, Steve Snyder wrote:
> I'm new to RHEL-like distros.
> 
> When, say, CentOS 4.1 is released, will it simply be CentOS 4.0 + released 
> updates in new ISO images?  Or is it more than just the updated packages 
> integrated into the full distribution?
> 
> Put another way, if my 4.0 installation is kept up to date with YUM, will 
> I basically have a 4.1 installation?

Yes, that is the way it is supposed to work.  In practice there was
a problem going from 3.3 to 3.4 so those updates were held back until
just recently.

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  Les Mikesell
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