On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:01 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Question about differences in RHEL 4.1 and CentOS 4.1 organization.
>
> There is no such thing as RHEL 4.1. Red Hat keeps the version the same
> and just provides updates. Every so often, a new set of ISOs is spun, and
> called RHEL 4 Update x (where x increments).
>
> > How
> > do you determine what packages were "regular" updates, and which packages
> > were part of U1?
>
> For RHEL, they are all "regular" updates.
>
And for CentOS as well ... the x in 4.x relates to the update number.
There is a 4/ symlink that points to the current tree (4.0) ... the 4/
symlink will shift from 4.0 to 4.1 when all the 4.0 arches (ia64,
x86_64, i386) have a fully functional (and tested) 4.1 tree.
We release the Security (RHSA) updates for update X as soon as they come
out, then we take the Enhancement (RHEA) updates and Bugfix (RHBA)
updates and build the new trees, test them, then release them. When all
the trees for the whole release are done, we shift the symlink.
That should happen in the next couple days for both 3.5 and 4.1.
So CentOS 4 is the release and 4.1 means update 1.
So, you can manually point to 4.1 now (if you use ia64 or i386) or wait
until we shift the link later after the x86_64 tree is live.
I tried to explain in the availability announcement:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-June/000310.html
(maybe not such a good job of explaining) :)
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