At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:53 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating from Debian to CentOS for various reasons. Since 5.3 - 5.4 is going to be my first major upgrade, I had a simple question. WHEN it's actually released, and things are going normal, should I just continue doing "yum upgrade" as always and will eventually be on 5.4?
Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own before the main update -- this was in the update announcement).
I seem to recall something with Fedora where you had to install some kind of release package, etc (again.. this was back in 2003 - 2004 time) and was just curious. Simple google searches tell me "yes! just yum upgrade" but I wanted input from you guys, if you don't mind.
Fedora does not have 'point releases'. One does a 'fresh' re-install every 6 months to a year (or something like that). CentOS (like RHEL itself) has long term support for the major version number (like 7 years), with regular updates (security and bug fixes) and point upgrades (like every 6 months or so).
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