[CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

Thu Mar 27 22:00:28 UTC 2008
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 3-27-2008 11:36 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> Morten Nilsen wrote:
>>>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>>>> If you installed 5.0, you're missing a LOT of updates.  The normal 
>>>>> update
>>>>> mechanism should bring your machine up to 5.1 unless you've taken 
>>>>> action
>>>>> to lock it to the 5.0 release.
>>>>
>>>> When I installed this box, 5.1 wasn't out yet..
>>>> And, no I haven't taken any kind of action to lock it to 5.0.
>>>>
>>>> I have run "yum update" a few times, but I don't see any signs of it 
>>>> wanting to upgrade to 5.1..
>>>
>>> The upgrade to 5.1 is seamless.  Your actual version (the replacement 
>>> for
>>> "$releasever" in the URL in the yum config file) is "5", not "5.0", 
>>> which
>>> will always track the latest release.  Sounds like the kernel version
>>> (currently kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5) is not what is causing your 
>>> problem.
>>>
>> I have only recently started using CentOS, and have an interesting 
>> query on this. If release 5 is always the latest release, does that 
>> mean when 5.6 comes out, it will still be v5? And how does the 
>> transition for major releases (from 4 to 5, 5 to 6) work?
>>
> 
> Let me relate this to Windows :D
> 
> CentOS-5.1 and 5.2 and 5.3 are like XP, XP Service Pack 1, and XP 
> Service Pack 2.
> 
Does that mean my systems will crash daily and I will need to buy a new 
version and a new computer to put it on every couple of years?

And please don't tell me that CentOS 6 will be like Vista, or I will be going 
back to my sliderule! ;-P


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