[ale] CentOS 5.0 -> 5.1

[Jason Fritcher]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> I'm kind of confused.  Unless he's changed the repo files manually,
> they should point to $releasever, which upon releasing 5.1, should now
> point to the new updated files, and he should be able to upgrade...
>
> If they are changed, then yes, that explains the breakage.  If not,
> something weird is going on...

The CentOS group decided that they would change the way that RH  
maintains the releases file. Because it says that it is version 5 and  
not 5.0 or 5.1, it means that it is tracking the latest release, so it  
will automatically update as each point release is made. If it had  
said 5.0 or 5.1, then the release is nailed down to that specific  
point release and will not upgrade automatically. If the kernel  
version on that machine is 2.6.18-53.* then it is on the 5.1 release  
and all is good.


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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org