On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:15 PM, William Hooper <whooperhsd at gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bernard Fay <bernard.fay at enodegroup.com> > wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > I have a CentOS 5.5 server freshly installed. > > > > When I do a yum updated package_name, I have referenced to 5.6. Why? > > CentOS "point releases" track the upstream "Update x" releases. So > CentOS 5.6 is upstream version 5 update 6. The point releases are not > a separate product, just a batch of updates to the base product. As > soon as you do a "yum update" to get all the new updates you will have > a 5.6 install. > > https://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 > > -- > William Hooper > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Oh ok! I didn't know about this way of tracking version in CentOS. It is a different paradigm from the other distros at least for the one I know. Thanks guys, Bernard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110414/56b2cf14/attachment-0005.html>