In the past few days, I've gotten tons of email from RH about updates to RHEL-3, yet when I run 'yum list updates' on my CentOS-3 server, it says there are no updates. How long behind RH does CentOS trail?
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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:51 -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
In the past few days, I've gotten tons of email from RH about updates to RHEL-3, yet when I run 'yum list updates' on my CentOS-3 server, it says there are no updates. How long behind RH does CentOS trail?
Usually within 24 hours ... but in this case, the updates are a new update set with a new ISO (this is EL3 update 6).
The new tree on the quarterly releases takes about 1-2 weeks to build and release.
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:49, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:51 -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
In the past few days, I've gotten tons of email from RH about updates to RHEL-3, yet when I run 'yum list updates' on my CentOS-3 server, it says there are no updates. How long behind RH does CentOS trail?
Usually within 24 hours ... but in this case, the updates are a new update set with a new ISO (this is EL3 update 6).
The new tree on the quarterly releases takes about 1-2 weeks to build and release.
Will you post a notice when the minor version update hits the repository and what to expect a recently-updated 3.5 system to download on a yum update?
Thanks. I didn't realize it was a quarterly release. The mail from RH looked like it was simply releasing a bunch of fixes. When CentOS is ready, will I simply be able to do a 'yum upgrade' to pick up everything I need to move to the new release?
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There are 3 types of updates which come out of RedHat. Security, Bugfix and Enhancements.
Security fixes are important and are normally released first, for the current 'Update' of centos (even if technically they belong to the next Update).
Bugfixes and Enhancements normally only come out in the RedHat Updates and CentOS normally releases them in the next CentOS Update. Sometimes a bugfix will come out at other times and will probably be released into the current update.
John.
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
Thanks. I didn't realize it was a quarterly release. The mail from RH looked like it was simply releasing a bunch of fixes. When CentOS is ready, will I simply be able to do a 'yum upgrade' to pick up everything I need to move to the new release?
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