Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? > > Yes ... cat /etc/redhat-release In 5.2, it says "CentOS release 5.2 (Final)" You can also do: rpm -q centos-release it says : centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2 == 5.0 centos-release-5-1.el5.centos == 5.1 centos-release-5-2.el5.centos == 5.2 -------------- 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/20080624/3060f221/attachment-0005.sig>