[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
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

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
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

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: CentOS-5 is the Release CentOS-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

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: CentOS-5 is the Release CentOS-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

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Is there a quick way to tell where any particular machine is in the minor-rev level when the release file just says 5? Yes ... cat /etc/redhat-release In 5.2, it says CentOS release 5.2 (Final) You can also do: rpm -q centos-release it says :

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
Les Mikesell wrote: Thanks! The new yum seems a bit different - maybe it's the fastestmirror plugin. Would you recommend doing a 'yum update yum rpm' before the complete run? It should work OK either way, but I would do: yum upgrade yum\* rpm (just to make sure you get the newer