[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 16:58:55 UTC 2008


Johnny Hughes wrote:
> CentOS-5 is the Release
> 
> CentOS-5.0, CentOS-5.1 and CentOS-5.2 are update sets of CentOS-5 ... 
> and are still CentOS-5.  The .0, .1, and .2 are update sets and are 
> really just a "frozen point in time" of CentOS-5.
> 
> Yum upgrades will always get you all the updates that are released for 
> CentOS-5 ... and that will automatically update you to the latest 
> CentOS-5 version.
> 
> If you are running CentOS-4 and you run yum ... you will be updated to 
> CentOS-4.6 now and to CentOS-4.7 when it is released.  You will not be 
> updated to CentOS-5.x from any version of CentOS-4.
> 
> 
> Does this make sense?

Is there a quick way to tell where any particular machine is in the 
minor-rev level when the release file just says 5?


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   Les Mikesell
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