on 12/5/2007 3:24 AM fred smith spake the following:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:43:13AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
fred smith wrote:
I have read multipe messages here from people upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1, presumably using "yum update" to do the deed.
When I do "yum update" on my (I think) fully updated Centos 5 system I get no updates.
Am I just being impatient (i.e., the updates haven't yet been pushed out) or am I somehow missing them?
well, have you changed anything in the default centos shipped /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo ?
and, check : rpm -qa --last | head and : rpm -q centos-release
perhaps you are already on 5.1 ?
Hmm.
# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1
and:
# rpm -qa --last | head mplayerplug-in-3.50-1.el5.rf Tue 04 Dec 2007 06:54:37 AM EST freenx-0.7.1.svn416-3.el5.centos Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:42 PM EST xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-6.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:41 PM EST xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.2-1.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:40 PM EST firstboot-1.4.27.3-1.el5.centos Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:38 PM EST xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.6.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:36 PM EST xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-8.1.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:35 PM EST rhpxl-0.41.1-1.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:34 PM EST xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.26.el5 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:31 PM EST xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-3 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:29 PM EST
so, perhaps I did get the update, since the first of those 2 cmds shows 5.1. But I don't remember getting a huge bolus of updates, which is what I would have expected to constitute a 5.0==>5.1 transition.
Probably I was further confused by /etc/redhat-release:
# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final)
which apparently (based on someother postings) a bug.
It is a new feature proposed by upstream to move to a 3 digit release system like 5.x.y instead of 5.x. Look at the bug report and you will see that it is a feature.
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2481