<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>James,<br><br>Your comment about package manager (yum etc) not differentiating between 4.2 and 4.8 is the reason why I was asking the original question. If I just upgrade it will patch it up all the way to 4.8 which I am trying to avoid (trying to get least changes as possible).However Kwan's idea would work, I was hoping that I was wrong and you could tell up2date/yum etc to only upgrade one minor release or only patch up to a specific release and not above that.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>thanks<br>Sheraz<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James Hogarth
<james.hogarth@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, May 14, 2010 4:01:43 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2<br></font><br>
On 14 May 2010 05:37, sheraz naz <<a ymailto="mailto:sheraznaz@yahoo.com" href="mailto:sheraznaz@yahoo.com">sheraznaz@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to<br>> list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run<br>> up2date -l to get a list of updates but does that show packages that need to<br>> be installed and removed as well or just the updates?<br>><br>> Second, how would I go about upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 instead of 4.8 (i.e.<br>> latest update).<br>><br>> Unfortunately I don't have access to centos 4.x at the moment.and googling<br>> just centos 4.1 to 4.2 is not bringing up relevant information.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Sheraz<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> CentOS mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:CentOS@centos.org"
href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a></span><br>><br>><br><br>One comment and one question.....<br><br>Comment) The .x is just a baseline at the time but yum/centos doesn't<br>have the concept of .x minor versions as such (to my understanding)<br>but rather it is a baseline change with possibly some new/changed<br>aspects (such as introduction of postgres84 in the 5.5 case or ext4<br>tech preview in 5.2 or something). As such trying to stay on an old .x<br>will possibly result in missed security patches and so on as those<br>parts of the mirrors potentially might not get updated. Rather than<br>Centos 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 3.1,3.2,5.1 and so on from a package mangement<br>(read yum) perspective it is pretty much centos 3, 4, 5 and soon (ish)<br>6. This would be why in the centos-announce mailing list,
as an<br>example, errata are not referred to as centos 4.3, centos 5.1 and so<br>on but there just centos 3, centos 4 or centos 5.<br><br>Question) 4.2 was a long... long... time ago - why not move to the<br>current centos 4 baseline of 4.8 if you are unable to upgrade to the<br>next major centos release (5)?<br><br>BTW someone please correct me on the comment if I am mistaken.... but<br>I recall a discussion similar to this last week over complaints of<br>EPEL tracking rhel and needing 5.5 for some packages but centos being<br>at a 5.4 baseline still....<br><br>James<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:CentOS@centos.org" href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos" target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></div></div>
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