Les Mikesell wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
CentOS-5 is the Release
CentOS-5.0, CentOS-5.1 and CentOS-5.2 are update sets of CentOS-5 ... and are still CentOS-5. The .0, .1, and .2 are update sets and are really just a "frozen point in time" of CentOS-5.
Yum upgrades will always get you all the updates that are released for CentOS-5 ... and that will automatically update you to the latest CentOS-5 version.
If you are running CentOS-4 and you run yum ... you will be updated to CentOS-4.6 now and to CentOS-4.7 when it is released. You will not be updated to CentOS-5.x from any version of CentOS-4.
Does this make sense?
Is there a quick way to tell where any particular machine is in the minor-rev level when the release file just says 5?
Yes ... cat /etc/redhat-release
In 5.2, it says "CentOS release 5.2 (Final)"
You can also do:
rpm -q centos-release
it says :
centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2 == 5.0 centos-release-5-1.el5.centos == 5.1 centos-release-5-2.el5.centos == 5.2