[CentOS] Re: CentOS releases and the new and improved CentOS Vault.

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Wed Jun 22 13:04:32 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:42:41AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
>>Let me say it again ... moving from CentOS-4.0 to CentOS-4.1 is not
>>changing to a new major release, it is just applying normally released
>>updates ... except, at that point, there are new ISOs, with new hardware
>>supported at install time.
>>
>>So the CentOS release model is very much like the upstream one, if you
>>run an update, you are at the latest versions for your release tree ...
>>exactly like upstream.
> 
> 
> This all makes perfect sense to me and sounds like a very reasonable scheme.
> In fact, it's one of the reasons I was suprised by the lack of 4.1 src.rpms.
> Which I know I keep harping about. :)
> 
> 

Thanks for this clarification Johnny.  I also thought that a lot of
people were confused about the releases...

It's simple, just update with yum or up2date :).

Did you put this page somewhere on the web so that we can send a link to
confused newcomers?

Thanks,




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