At Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:25:53 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG > WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm > pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, > but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and > we're slowly migrating from Debian to CentOS for various reasons. > Since 5.3 - 5.4 is going to be my first major upgrade, I had a simple > question. WHEN it's actually released, and things are going normal, > should I just continue doing "yum upgrade" as always and will > eventually be on 5.4? Yes. Generally, doing yum update or yum upgrade will pick up new point releases as they become available. *Sometimes* you need to do something special (the 5.2 to 5.3 update required an upgrade of glibc on its own before the main update -- this was in the update announcement). > > I seem to recall something with Fedora where you had to install some > kind of release package, etc (again.. this was back in 2003 - 2004 > time) and was just curious. Simple google searches tell me "yes! > just yum upgrade" but I wanted input from you guys, if you don't mind. Fedora does not have 'point releases'. One does a 'fresh' re-install every 6 months to a year (or something like that). CentOS (like RHEL itself) has long term support for the major version number (like 7 years), with regular updates (security and bug fixes) and point upgrades (like every 6 months or so). > > Thanks, > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/