[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jun 24 12:23:08 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
> >> Are you saying that simply running "yum update" on a Centos-5.1 system
> >> will convert it to Centos-5.2, as and when that is released?
>
> > All upgrades / updates in the major versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.1) will
> > happen automatically when you run yum upgrade, and when it's officially
> > released for updates. And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other
> > Linux distro also works like this
>
> Well, I never heard of a Fedora 9.1 distribution
> that could be "yum upgrade"d to Fedora 9.2 .
> IIRC, when RedHat (occasionally) had versions 8.1 and 8.2
> they were completely different.
>
> Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2?
> Is it just that if installing Centos from scratch,
> one could download a more up-to-date version?
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all of these questions are answered on their web site - see their FAQ
this specific question is answered here...
http://centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34
Craig
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