Karanbir Singh wrote:
yup, bit of a change with the upstream people adopting this whole z-series thing, wherein they will now maintain branches for 5.1 even when 5.2 is released.
over the next day or so, I shall try and get a document that explains this whole thing.
Before CentOS 5 x86, I was using Scientific Linux 4 and they were keeping 4.x trees (e.g. 4.0, 4.1 etc) and for having an upgrade to the latest tree automatically, we were using a plug in or something (installed as an rpm). Those without that rpm were kept to their release (tree) and were getting only the updates for their release (4.0, 4.1 and so on). At the same time, I remember (either saw at the CentOS site, or someone mentioned it in the SL mailing list), that CentOS was keeping up only with the latest release (tree) of Red Hat EL4.
So I am not sure the tree issue (x.y) did not exit before. I haven't understood the new x.y.z scheme though.