On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:15 PM, William Hooper <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bernard Fay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > I have a CentOS 5.5 server freshly installed. > > > > When I do a yum updated package_name, I have referenced to 5.6. Why? > > CentOS "point releases" track the upstream "Update x" releases. So > CentOS 5.6 is upstream version 5 update 6. The point releases are not > a separate product, just a batch of updates to the base product. As > soon as you do a "yum update" to get all the new updates you will have > a 5.6 install. > > https://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 > > -- > William Hooper > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Oh ok! I didn't know about this way of tracking version in CentOS. It is a different paradigm from the other distros at least for the one I know. Thanks guys, Bernard
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