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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sure, not everyone follow the sub-version / minor version path for software, but even in Fedora Core, you'd find Xen 3.0, Xen 3.1, Xen 3.2, etc Sub versions (i.e. CentOS 5.1 / 5.2) are normally minor upgrades within the major version, whereas major versions in most software distributions often involve large changes (like adding / removing new / old architectures, or major kernel upgrades, or totally new features / software / scripts). Bear in mind that FC is almost a tottaly different distro than CentOS and they aim at the cutting edge stuff, yet their numbering works with major numbers. I'm sure there's a better explanation on their forum / mailing list / website why they follow that route, but (*)Ubuntu, Slackware, Suse, Debian, FreeBSD (Yes, I know it's not Linux, but it's an example), Mandriva, Red Hat, etc all have major & minor numbers, hence my comment, " And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other Linux distro also works like this" -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff