[CentOS] 5.1 Upgrade Not Working?

Mon Dec 10 17:17:12 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Scott Moseman wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:24 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:
>>> # cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> CentOS release 5 (Final)
>> Check the output of rpm -q centos-release.  /etc/redhat-release
>> isn't updated as in previous releases.
>>
> 
> # rpm -q centos-release
> centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1
> 
> I'm not sure how to read that version.  To me, it says I'm on 5,
> unless the 1.0 is suppose to tell me the update version.

this issue has been covered here on the list as well as on the wiki and 
the issue tracker. It might be worth looking through those first.

and yes, the /etc/redhat-release file will only tell you what release 
you are on. and as you yum update, that should move along to whatever is 
the latest set of packages published.

if you choose to manually branch your machine off into a .z-release 
line, that would be a manual choice you need to make, hopefully being 
aware of the pitfalls of such a move.

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