[CentOS] yum update for 5.0 ==> 5.1

[fred smith]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:43:13AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> fred smith wrote:
> > I have read multipe messages here from people upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1,
> > presumably using "yum update" to do the deed.
> > 
> > When I do "yum update" on my (I think) fully updated Centos 5 system I get no updates.
> > 
> > Am I just being impatient (i.e., the updates haven't yet been pushed out) or am I
> > somehow missing them?
> 
> well, have you changed anything in the default centos shipped
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo ?
> 
> and, check : rpm -qa --last | head
> and : rpm -q centos-release
> 
> perhaps you are already on 5.1 ?

Hmm.

# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1

and:

# rpm -qa --last | head
mplayerplug-in-3.50-1.el5.rf                  Tue 04 Dec 2007 06:54:37 AM EST
freenx-0.7.1.svn416-3.el5.centos              Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:42 PM EST
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-6.el5                  Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:41 PM EST
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.2-1.el5                   Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:40 PM EST
firstboot-1.4.27.3-1.el5.centos               Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:38 PM EST
xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.6.el5               Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:36 PM EST
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-8.1.el5               Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:35 PM EST
rhpxl-0.41.1-1.el5                            Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:34 PM EST
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.26.el5          Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:31 PM EST
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-3                 Sun 02 Dec 2007 06:49:29 PM EST


so, perhaps I did get the update, since the first of those 2 cmds shows 5.1.
But I don't remember getting a huge bolus of updates, which is what I would
have expected to constitute a 5.0==>5.1 transition.

Probably I was further confused by /etc/redhat-release:

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)

which apparently (based on someother postings) a bug.

Thanks for the reply!

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