On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 06:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
But in the 4.xx version when you do a 'cat /etc/redhat-release' it shows
you the version "CentOS release 4.5 (Final)" for example, now with
version 5 after the upgrade to version 5.1 if you do a
'cat /etc/redhat-release' it always shows "CentOS release 5 (Final)" and
not "CentOS release 5.1 (Final)"
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > I have performed the 5.1 update via the 5 repo on a couple of systems.
> > I then went to switch these systems to my new local repo using ther
> > $releasever variable. It still has the value of 5, not 5.1
> >
> > Where is this set? Why was it not changed to 5.1?
> >
>
> Just to answer this "technical question" ...
>
> $releasever is obtained by getting the release string from a package
> that is defined in the yum.conf file.
>
> The package is set with this variable in yum.conf:
>
> distroverpkg=
>
> In the case of centos, that variable is either centos-release or
> /etc/redhat-release.
>
> You can see what the $releasever is with this command:
>
> rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}\n' centos-release
>
> OR
>
> rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}\n' `rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/redhat-release`
>
> (Both of these will work, and one is used, depending on the value of
> distroverpkg= in /etc/yum.conf)
>
> Every release of CentOS-3.x, CentOS-4.x, and CentOS-5.x has ALWAYS had
> 3, 4, or 5 as the $releasever. We control WHAT /4/ or /5/ is (as a
> symlink) so that we set the "Current Version" by pointing 4 to 4.5 or
> 4.6 and 5 to 5.0 or 5.1. We have been doing this for 4 years.
>
> We have NEVER had 3.5, 4.5, 5.1, etc. as a $releasever.
>
> We MAY have a 5.1 or 4.6 as a release version for people who want to
> stay on a point release (after a new version is available) as the
> upstream provider releases their "z stream" releases later. We may also
> just provide CentOS-Base.repo files as replacement files that have hard
> coded versions in place.
>
> Keep in mind that other (3rd party) sites use 3, 4, 5 in their .repo
> files for centos ... and if we change this (to 4.6 or 5.1), it will
> possibly break their repos on your system until they take action to make
> 5.1 or 4.6 work on their server, or until you edit THEIR .repo files and
> make changes.
>
>
>
> > On the one clean install from the 5.1 isos, $releasever is at 5.1 I
> > think.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
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