Mail Administrator wrote:

Thanks guys for the quick reply

btw cat /etc/redhat-release gives me

CentOS release 5 (Final) so as per the FAQ guess its uptodate

thnks again regards

simon

Interesting that this seems to deviate from upstream. Checking an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box, I get:

# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)

Does anyone know what upstream does with the 5.1.z updates? Does /etc/redhat-release show "5.1.z" or something?

-Greg

Thanks DNK,

u r absolutely right the cat /etc/redhat-release does not reflect the version correctly but the rpm -q centos-release does it perfectly

thnksss n really apprecite

cheers

regards

simon

I seem to remember reading a release note somewhere that the way centos 5 worked now was that the /etc/redhat-releases would not reflect properly (man I wish I could find the reference to that).

And that you needed to do something like:

rpm -qa centos-release

For example on one of my systems, I do: cat /etc/redhat-release

I get:

CentOS release 5 (Final)

But I know for sure that this system is a 5.1

So When i run the:

rpm -qa centos-release

I get:

centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1

Which seems more accurate.

DNK

On 3-Apr-08, at 7:46 AM, Greg Bailey wrote:

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Mail Administrator wrote:

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Thanks guys for the quick reply

btw cat /etc/redhat-release gives me

CentOS release 5 (Final) so as per the FAQ guess its uptodate

thnks again regards

simon

Interesting that this seems to deviate from upstream. Checking an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box, I get:

# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)

Does anyone know what upstream does with the 5.1.z updates? Does / etc/redhat-release show "5.1.z" or something?

-Greg

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Greg Bailey wrote:

Mail Administrator wrote:

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Thanks guys for the quick reply

btw cat /etc/redhat-release gives me

CentOS release 5 (Final) so as per the FAQ guess its uptodate

thnks again regards

simon

Interesting that this seems to deviate from upstream. Checking an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 box, I get:

# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)

Does anyone know what upstream does with the 5.1.z updates? Does /etc/redhat-release show "5.1.z" or something?

-Greg

OF COURSE it deviates from upstream. We are a separate distribution

This has been covered again and again and it is in an FAQ.

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5#head-51ce9db5abbde6b4dbe39b0531d01b34f80f...

Upstream is GOING to (supposedly) provide a "Z Series" (as in 5.1.1 and 5.2.0). However, we do not yet know exactly how that will work in practice until they implement it.

IF we support the "Z series" update sets separately (we have not decided completely if we have the "RESOURCES" to do that) then once you lock onto a "Z Series" you would have something different in your /etc/redhat-release.

IF you DO NOT lock into a "Z Series" release then you would have "Release 5" ... not 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3 ... in your /etc/release. This is because that is exactly what you are doing if you do not deviate to a "Z Series". Deviation (staying on the 5.1.z series, for example) would mean that you will stay on 5.1.1 (and then 5.1.2 and 5.1.3) while 5.2.0, then 5.3.0 (and 5.2.1,5.1.2) and 5.4.0 (and 5.3.1,5.2.2,5.1.3) become available. Of course, at that point, they are "End of Life"ing the 5.1 branch .. so there will not be a 5.1.4 and you would at that point need to plan an upgrade to some other branch (5.5.0, 5.4.1, 5.3.2, or 5.2.3).

SO ... being on Release 5 means, you are getting normal updates, just like before ... not being on release 5 means you are on a "Z Series", if/when we support them.

This is JUST semantics ... it has nothing to do with anything except some text in a file that helps us to understand what release you are on.