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

Tue Jun 24 11:41:51 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>   
>>> I like to keep reasonably up-to-date with distributions I am running,
>>> so would like to update to Centos-5.2 as and when it is released.
>>>       
>> ----
>> you will be up to date simply by running 'yum update'
>>
>> When 5.2 is released, those updates will be installed
>>     
>
> Are you saying that simply running "yum update" on a Centos-5.1 system
> will convert it to Centos-5.2, as and when that is released?
>
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Yup

All upgrades / updates in the major versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.1) will 
happen automatically when you run yum upgrade, and when it's officially 
released for updates. And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other 
Linux distro also works like this

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