Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-27-2008 10:50 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
Robert Nichols wrote:
The upgrade to 5.1 is seamless. Your actual version (the
replacement for
"$releasever" in the URL in the yum config file) is "5", not "5.0",
which
will always track the latest release. Sounds like the kernel version
(currently kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5) is not what is causing your
problem.
I have only recently started using CentOS, and have an interesting
query on this. If release 5 is always the latest release, does that
mean when 5.6 comes out, it will still be v5? And how does the
transition for major releases (from 4 to 5, 5 to 6) work?
5 will always be 5 until it falls off of support. 5.6 is just version
5 at a set point in time with all the upgrades at the time the freeze
was set. So you get CentOS 5, but with the current kernel and files at
that time. The installer also gets any kernel revisions and patches
that are at that point in time. That way a 5.6 install cd/dvd might
install on hardware that was unsupported in an earlier point release.
A major release will get the next major number. I don't think any
major release will ever automatically update to the next release, as
upstream has always recommended a wipe and install over major version
upgrades. And since upstream has usually set new releases at an 18-24
month release cycle, you can usually expect a new major release at
about every 2 years or so.
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Cool, thanx for the info :)
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