[CentOS] question about updates with centos 3.x / Upgrade to 3.5 for the updates or reinstall all servers with centos 3 ?

Tue Jun 21 15:58:31 UTC 2005
Lance Davis <lance at uklinux.net>

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Cesar Lagarrigue wrote:

> Hello
> 
>     i have a doubt, if i installed 3.3 , 3.4 or 3.5, i see the mirrors 
> removed the 3.1-3.4 i have a 3.3 running ....but i thinked the rhel 
> flavors are supposed to long life (3~5 years) but not understand, i to 
> upgrade to 3.5 for have the lastest updates?

Yes that is correct

3.1-3.4 are only stages in the release of CentOS and they are dropped when 
the next stage is reached.

Security updates may not work on previous versions so it is not possible 
to maintain them and if you continue to use them it is at your own risk.


> Reinstall servers to centos 3.5 are big job... or then i have to install 
> centos 3 with no revision for have long life s.o for get the updates?

just run yum update

Regards
Lance

> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 

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