Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2?Think of it as a rebase with added kernel drivers, some newer features and so on, while still basically being CentOS 5. Or - if you come from the windows world - CentOS 5, service pack 2.But does one actually get Windows XP SP3 simply by repeated "Windows Update"s?Windows XP service pack 3 was released recently, Windows NT 4 had 6 service packsThere is probably a misunderstanding here. Windows XP Service Pack 3 was a separate upgrade. IIRC, it did not come as a standard update. One was told SP3 was available, and how to get it. But this is a minor point.
regardless ... WinXP is not WinVista or Win2000 or Win98 AND CentOS-2 is not CentOS-3, CentOS-4, CentOS-5
As I understand it, by simply continuing to say "yum update" at regular intervals, my server will change itself from 5.1 to 5.2 . It seems a bit like my age, which will automatically increase by 1 on Thursday.
OK .. here is the point CentOS-5 is the ReleaseCentOS-5.0, CentOS-5.1 and CentOS-5.2 are update sets of CentOS-5 ... and are still CentOS-5. The .0, .1, and .2 are update sets and are really just a "frozen point in time" of CentOS-5.
Yum upgrades will always get you all the updates that are released for CentOS-5 ... and that will automatically update you to the latest CentOS-5 version.
If you are running CentOS-4 and you run yum ... you will be updated to CentOS-4.6 now and to CentOS-4.7 when it is released. You will not be updated to CentOS-5.x from any version of CentOS-4.
Does this make sense?
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