At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:16:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:16:43AM -0400, John Kennedy wrote: > > > Only going to 4.7 because the required app is not certified for 4.8 (In the > > RHEL world which is what we are basing this on). 4.7 is as high as they will > > go. I know I will be doing this again in a month's time when they have 4.8 > > certified... > > I just do as I am told...To an extent... > > Thanks, > > John > > I didn't think that CentOS version numbers necessarily track RHEL > version numbers. Kernel numbers do, of course, but not the distro > or did I miss too much of the conversation? CentOS versions do track RHEL version numbers. CentOS n.m == RHEL n.m. The only difference is mostly the 'flavor' of the eye candy: RHEL n.m will have Red Hats (TM) showing up in various places and CentOS n.m will have a different graphic in place of the Red Hats (TM). In other places the words "Red Hat" have been replaced with "CentOS". This is just a replacement of tradmarked images and phrases. I think there are a couple of non open-source packages included in RHEL n.m that are not present in CentOS n.m (nothing essentual, just some extra 'goodies'). > > ////jerry > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > > > > > At Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > For (system) certification purposes, we have to upgrade our 4.4 machines > > > to > > > > 4.7. > > > > In the past I usually have just reinstalled machines to save the > > > (perceived) > > > > headaches of upgrading. That is not an option in this case. > > > > Are there any pitfalls to watch out for when upgrading? Is it even > > > possible > > > > to go up 3 revisions? > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > > > > > Why to 4.7? The current point release for CentOS 4 is 4.8. Going from > > > 4.4 to 4.8 is trivial ('yum update' then 'shutdown -r now'). > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! > > > Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration > > > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database > > > heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Did you know that it costs forty thousand dollars a year to house each > > prisoner?...I don't think we should give free room and board to criminals. I > > think they should have to run twelve hours a day on a treadmill and generate > > electricity. And if they don't want to run, they can rest in the chair > > that's hooked up to the generator. > > -George Carlin > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > 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/