On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:37, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:

On 11/30/2011 10:31 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote:

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On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote:

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Hey folks,

I am sure there must be an easy way to do this.

I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have version 4.3.29.

Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3?  Or that this is the latest version in the 5.x stream?

If the former, then how do I find out what release of the db4 software (sleepcat berkeley db) is in 5.7?

I don't want to "yum upgrade" just yet.  I have to research a number of things before upgrading, and this is one of them.

thanks, -Alan

If you have questions on the 5.7 version why not building a virtual machine and do tests on it?

To answer your question, "yum info" or "yum upgrade" will give you the latest in the 5.x stream.

I suggested going directly to a mirror and check, just in case he had the url to 5.3 hard coded in his .repo file.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:44, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:

Normally I would have a VM for this sort of thing but I still do not have a machine available for that and I'm hesitant to put VMWare Server on one of my production machines.   I'm new here and have already flagged that I need a box for VMs - hoping to have something in place by this time next week.

I'd be hesitant to put an EOL product on my production machines as well.

Look at xen, kvm, or virtualbox for your virt needs.

On 11/30/2011 10:15 AM, Alan McKay wrote:

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I'd be hesitant to put an EOL product on my production machines as well.

Let me rephrase that - I am hesitant to put ANY virtualization on these production machines. Mainly because I am very new here and do not know the environment very well yet.

The answer to your question is this:

yum info will tell you 2 things. The installed version and the latest available version.

The installed version(s) are all versions of that on your machine ... usually only kernel will have more than one.

The available version is the latest in the repos that you have active. If you have your own repo then it would be the latest in your repo. If you use the default repos, then it would be the latest available for the entire 5.x tree (currently 5.7).

You can also just look here to see the latest as well:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/

or if there are no updates for a package then here:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/