On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > Renato Botelho wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I built a system based on centos 5.3, now i'm planing to move to 5.4. >> To do it I rebuilt all rpms making some changes. >> >> When I use a common centos 5.3, it automatically detects that 5.4 >> is available and move update for it when i run yum update. How >> does this work? How the system detects new version and update >> for it? >> >> I thought centos-release rpm just update repo for it, but I saw this >> is not the case. >> >> Could someone gimme some light? >> > > 5.3 + updates = 5.4 > > There are usually no major problems in upgrading between point releases, > but it is always a good idea to read the release notes. > > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 My question is not *how* to update, but how the rpm detects a new version is available and automatically update to rpms from 5.4 version. -- Renato Botelho