Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:03:10 +0000:
As you see from quite a few inquiries over the last days that parapgraph is *easily* misread. Don't take it personal ;-) Apart from those questions from people who didn't read it at all there a several questions about the content that all go in the same direction or simply don't understand it.
you can still read the version from before my change - and even there it clearly states that you need to change yum configs etc to make changes to the repos your system sees.
No, it says "manually telling yum to do so" which could just mean "edit that release file!" in this context. Beat me and others, but that's what we read in it.
There is no mention or indication to
anything requiring a change in the redhat-release file.
I just re-read the paragraph again carefully and I think it is the first sentence that creates the confusion. It says "for a period of time next to the latest version of the 5 series" one can wonder about a minute what this really means) and then at the end it says "and you will not move to a newer release without ...". This *seems* to indicate that if the release file contains "5.1" yum is going to provide updates for 5.1 and stop with updating when 5.2 comes out. And you would either have to set it to 5.2 or 5 to continue with updating. Especially that "newer release" seems to indicatethis. As I read it now what actually is going to happen is that upstream *branches* beginning with 5.1 to 5.1.1, 5.1.2 etc. and they will keep providing updates for 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and the "main" 5 stream until the main stream support cycle ends. But this won't be determined of the release file, it's only an indicator.
Kai