On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:16 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > >> 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? > > > 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 > > Well, I never heard of a Fedora 9.1 distribution > that could be "yum upgrade"d to Fedora 9.2 . > IIRC, when RedHat (occasionally) had versions 8.1 and 8.2 > they were completely different. > > Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2? > Is it just that if installing Centos from scratch, > one could download a more up-to-date version? ---- all of these questions are answered on their web site - see their FAQ this specific question is answered here... http://centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 Craig