--- Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Humm.. Even Red Hat is supporting RHEL releases longer than this. We use RHEL AS Release with full support.
Not correct. RHEL is on RHEL 4 update 2. If you run up2date -fu, you will get the full updates. Follow that with a cat /etc/redhat-release and it will confirm thusly (note we use ES, not AS, but same applies):
[jperrin@xxxx ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2) [jperrin@xxxx ~]$
it's the major version number that has the support, not the minor.
Does this mean if Red Hat comes out with more updates for RHEL 4.1 you will not apply them to Centos 4.1 any more?
All updates are being applied to the 4.2 tree now, just as upstream is applying them to AS4 update 2.
-- Jim Perrin System Administrator - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi Jim!
I not real concerned with how the numbering of releases are done.
This is what I am concerned with: 1). Don't see any need at this point to update from 4.1 to 4.2 2)... down the road... say 4.3 comes out and there are updates to a few packages I might need/want. 3). Can 4.1 be updated with these packages correctly or will there be a problem with rpm dependency/compatibility issues?
If issues arise, then it would seem to me you would have to do the MS service pack type of routine everytime a new version comes out.
I do not like to upgrad entire systems unless it is absolutely necessary.