[CentOS] Re: yum update for 5.0 ==> 5.1

[Scott Silva]

on 12/5/2007 3:24 AM fred smith spake the following:
> 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.
> 
It is a new feature proposed by upstream to move to a 3 digit release system 
like 5.x.y instead of 5.x. Look at the bug report and you will see that it is 
a feature.

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2481


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