Amos Shapira wrote: > On 12/12/2007, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >> Amos Shapira wrote: >> >>> Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust >>> around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays). >>> >> ok, so what do you mean by sticking to 5.0 ? you mean you dont want any >> updates at all for those machines, even if they might be security issues ? >> > > (I also replied to David's message) > > No. I'm trying to understand where does 5.0 stand now that 5.1 is out > - should I abandon 5.0 and upgrade to 5.1 if I want to stick to > secure, stable releases or is 5.0 going to be maintained in parallel > to 5.0 for security issues? > > >From your response so far I suspect that it's the former (must upgrade to 5.1). > > >>> As an example - In Debian, as long as I stick to "stable" I can be >>> sure that the only updates I receive there are for heavily tested very >>> important bugs and security issues, so I should generally apply them. >>> >> CentOS does not follow the debian release model. >> > > This idea is beginning to sink in :^). > > I just though that RHEL/CentOS is all about providing rock-solid, > tested stable releases but there are some noises on the net that the > new release might be giving early adopters some rough time. > > >>> 1. If I read the FAQ correctly, in order to force yum to stay with 5.0 >>> should I just manually edit /etc/redhat-release from: >>> >>> CentOS release 5 (Final) >>> to: >>> CentOS release 5.0 (Final) >>> >> no, there is no such mention abut anything in the FAQ or anywhere else >> that I can find. What made you believe that changing stuff in that text >> file will change the repo's your machine is looking at ? >> > > It doesn't explicitly say so but as David pointed out, > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5#q8 talks about the content of this > file as a way to know where the system thinks it belongs to now. > > I now noticed the last sentence saying "you are in the update release > stream for the 5.1 series and you will not move to a newer release > without making changes to the yum config.". What kind of changes does > this refer to? Overriding the $releasever in the repository URL's to > hard-coded "5.0" or what? > > Thanks, > > --Amos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi Amos My understanding is that unless you choose not to update your system at all you can not freeze on a point release. So install from any 5.* media and when you update you will go to the latest point release. What I would suggest if you are really worried about this is to configure /etc/yum.conf with a keepcache higher than 1 so that if an update is done you can roll back the rpm I hope this helps