Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Are you saying that simply running "yum update" on a Centos-5.1 system
will convert it to Centos-5.2, as and when that is released?
All upgrades / updates in the major versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.1) will
happen automatically when you run yum upgrade, and when it's officially
released for updates. And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other
Linux distro also works like this
Well, I never heard of a Fedora 9.1 distribution
that could be "yum upgrade"d to Fedora 9.2 .
IIRC, when RedHat (occasionally) had versions 8.1 and 8.2
they were completely different.
Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2?
Is it just that if installing Centos from scratch,
one could download a more up-to-date version?
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Sure, not everyone follow the sub-version / minor version path for
software, but even in Fedora Core, you'd find Xen 3.0, Xen 3.1, Xen 3.2,
etc
Sub versions (i.e. CentOS 5.1 / 5.2) are normally minor upgrades within
the major version, whereas major versions in most software distributions
often involve large changes (like adding / removing new / old
architectures, or major kernel upgrades, or totally new features /
software / scripts).
Bear in mind that FC is almost a tottaly different distro than CentOS
and they aim at the cutting edge stuff, yet their numbering works with
major numbers. I'm sure there's a better explanation on their forum /
mailing list / website why they follow that route, but (*)Ubuntu,
Slackware, Suse, Debian, FreeBSD (Yes, I know it's not Linux, but it's
an example), Mandriva, Red Hat, etc all have major & minor numbers,
hence my comment, "
And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other
Linux distro also works like this"
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