At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:16:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:16:43AM -0400, John Kennedy wrote:
Only going to 4.7 because the required app is not certified for 4.8 (In the RHEL world which is what we are basing this on). 4.7 is as high as they will go. I know I will be doing this again in a month's time when they have 4.8 certified... I just do as I am told...To an extent... Thanks, John
I didn't think that CentOS version numbers necessarily track RHEL version numbers. Kernel numbers do, of course, but not the distro or did I miss too much of the conversation?
CentOS versions do track RHEL version numbers. CentOS n.m == RHEL n.m. The only difference is mostly the 'flavor' of the eye candy: RHEL n.m will have Red Hats (TM) showing up in various places and CentOS n.m will have a different graphic in place of the Red Hats (TM). In other places the words "Red Hat" have been replaced with "CentOS". This is just a replacement of tradmarked images and phrases. I think there are a couple of non open-source packages included in RHEL n.m that are not present in CentOS n.m (nothing essentual, just some extra 'goodies').
////jerry
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hello all, For (system) certification purposes, we have to upgrade our 4.4 machines
to
4.7. In the past I usually have just reinstalled machines to save the
(perceived)
headaches of upgrading. That is not an option in this case. Are there any pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading? Is it even
possible
to go up 3 revisions? Thanks, John
Why to 4.7? The current point release for CentOS 4 is 4.8. Going from 4.4 to 4.8 is trivial ('yum update' then 'shutdown -r now').
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