Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>>>> Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2? > >>>> Think of it as a rebase with added kernel drivers, some newer features >>>> and so on, while still basically being CentOS 5. >>>> >>>> Or - if you come from the windows world - CentOS 5, service pack 2. > >>> But does one actually get Windows XP SP3 >>> simply by repeated "Windows Update"s? > >> Windows XP service pack 3 was released recently, Windows NT 4 had 6 >> service packs > > There is probably a misunderstanding here. > Windows XP Service Pack 3 was a separate upgrade. > IIRC, it did not come as a standard update. > One was told SP3 was available, and how to get it. > But this is a minor point. regardless ... WinXP is not WinVista or Win2000 or Win98 AND CentOS-2 is not CentOS-3, CentOS-4, CentOS-5 > As I understand it, by simply continuing to say "yum update" > at regular intervals, my server will change itself from 5.1 to 5.2 . > It seems a bit like my age, which will automatically increase by 1 > on Thursday. OK .. here is the point 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? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080624/369ba49c/attachment-0005.sig>