on 3-27-2008 11:36 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
Does that mean my systems will crash daily and I will need to buy a new version and a new computer to put it on every couple of years?Rudi Ahlers wrote:Robert Nichols wrote: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?Morten Nilsen wrote:Robert Nichols wrote:If you installed 5.0, you're missing a LOT of updates. The normal update mechanism should bring your machine up to 5.1 unless you've taken actionto lock it to the 5.0 release.When I installed this box, 5.1 wasn't out yet.. And, no I haven't taken any kind of action to lock it to 5.0.I have run "yum update" a few times, but I don't see any signs of it wanting to upgrade to 5.1..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", whichwill 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.Let me relate this to Windows :DCentOS-5.1 and 5.2 and 5.3 are like XP, XP Service Pack 1, and XP Service Pack 2.
And please don't tell me that CentOS 6 will be like Vista, or I will be going back to my sliderule! ;-P
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