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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!