On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:42:09PM -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke alleged:
Hi,
Redhat announced RHEL 5.1 on Nov 07, so hopefully CentOS 5.1 will be ready shortly. But I get kind of nervous of the arrival of 5.1.
My problem is: I have hundreds Centos 5.0 boxes just finished installation and I will continue to install and upgrade hundreds more in next few months. With the arrival of Centos 5.1, I don't like to reinstall them anymore but continuous upgrade instead -- if this is possible?
Don't think of 5.0 and 5.1 as different distros. They are the same distro.
Think of it as a bunch of non-critical updates that were withheld from the regular update cycle, tested as a set, and released all at once with a new installer image. It is just an update, analogous to a Windows service pack.
Think of RHEL5 as the distro, evolving through time, and 5.1 as a well-tested snapshot of RHEL5 at a particular point in time.
A regular 'yum update' will bring in all of the new updates. There is no need to reinstall the OS.