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? I think your confusion comes from the fact that you consider 5.1 to be a new release, and not what it really is : 5.0 + updates + some bug fix's. I suggest you read up on how the whole EL codebase moves. > 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? no, when branches are created - they will involve you installing a new centos-release rpm. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq