question about updates with centos 3.x / Upgrade to 3.5 for the updates or reinstall all servers with centos 3 ?
Hello
i have a doubt, if i installed 3.3 , 3.4 or 3.5, i see the mirrors removed the 3.1-3.4 i have a 3.3 running ....but i thinked the rhel flavors are supposed to long life (3~5 years) but not understand, i to upgrade to 3.5 for have the lastest updates?
Reinstall servers to centos 3.5 are big job... or then i have to install centos 3 with no revision for have long life s.o for get the updates?
Thanks a lot.
Cesar Lagarrigue wrote:
Hello
i have a doubt, if i installed 3.3 , 3.4 or 3.5, i see the mirrors removed the 3.1-3.4 i have a 3.3 running ....but i thinked the rhel flavors are supposed to long life (3~5 years) but not understand, i to upgrade to 3.5 for have the lastest updates?
Reinstall servers to centos 3.5 are big job... or then i have to install centos 3 with no revision for have long life s.o for get the updates?
Thanks a lot.
Just update with yum and you'll be at 3.5. No need to re-install.
Just update with yum and you'll be at 3.5. No need to re-install.
Exactly: 3.5 is the updates for 3.4 which was the updates for 3.3 etc. It's just that The Upstream Provider from time to time provides not only security updates but bugfixes and enhancements, while security updates are released immediately, the remaining two categories are released in a bigger batch. These bigger batches result in a lot of packages being updated and thus make sense for new iso's to be issued for downloading (which incorporate all the latest fixes, both security and bug and enhancements). Such a new set of iso's gets a new number (ie. the just released 4.1) even though what it is is just 4.0 with all then-current updates.
So unless you have hardcoded the '3.3' or whatever (instead of just '3') into some paths in your yum/apt/up2date configuration files they should work normally and provide a lot of updated packages.
Cheers, MaZe.
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Cesar Lagarrigue wrote:
Hello
i have a doubt, if i installed 3.3 , 3.4 or 3.5, i see the mirrorsremoved the 3.1-3.4 i have a 3.3 running ....but i thinked the rhel flavors are supposed to long life (3~5 years) but not understand, i to upgrade to 3.5 for have the lastest updates?
Yes that is correct
3.1-3.4 are only stages in the release of CentOS and they are dropped when the next stage is reached.
Security updates may not work on previous versions so it is not possible to maintain them and if you continue to use them it is at your own risk.
Reinstall servers to centos 3.5 are big job... or then i have to install centos 3 with no revision for have long life s.o for get the updates?
just run yum update
Regards Lance
Thanks a lot.
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Cesar Lagarrigue -
Lance Davis -
Maciej Żenczykowski -
Ugo Bellavance