4.76.22

[Alex Neuman]

I can attest to that - yum update + yum upgrade + reboot will give you a 5.3
box, as long as you start from a 5.0/5.1/5.2.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 00:13 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > Yes, agreed. The difference between RedHat and CentOS here is that when
> > you "yum update" a RedHat 5.2 box you don't end up with a RedHat 5.3
> > box, you end up with a fully patched RedHat 5.2 box. I'm used to using
> > RedHat and not CentOS, and didn't appreciate there was this difference
> > in how they handle "yum update" instructions.
> >
> > My bad.
> ----
> maybe I'm not understanding you but CentOS is like RHEL which does
> indeed update /etc/redhat-release with each yum update if a new one is
> available and if you had RHELv5.2 and did 'yum update' - it would end up
> being RHELv5.3 and for all purposes, the same as if you had just
> installed RHELv5.3 clean.
>
> Craig
>
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