On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 10:51 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

Hello everyone,

Let say 5.4 goes out today; If I fully update (today) my 5.2 system...will it be equivalent to 5.4 (all RPM packages with same version/release number?)?

Yes.

Or is it possible for the new point release to include NEW packages that weren't on the base relase (in this case CentOS 5)?

Yes.

The release notes will have a section if/which packages have been removed or are new to the release (or have been updated).

Ralph

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

Hello everyone,

Let say 5.4 goes out today; If I fully update (today) my 5.2 system...will it be equivalent to 5.4 (all RPM packages with same version/release number?)?

Or is it possible for the new point release to include NEW packages that weren't on the base relase (in this case CentOS 5)?

In general, you'll get the current version of the same packages you have installed. However, it is possible for some packages to be reorganized, have new dependencies, or for some new package to obsolete and replace an older one so you end up with the same functionality as before even if you have some different package names.

If you run "yum update" interactively it will show you what it plans to do and wait for confirmation. You can answer no if you don't like it. But read the release notes first in case there are special requirements like there were for 5.3 (update glibc* first).