[ale] CentOS 5.0 -> 5.1

[Jerry Yu]

/etc/issue from centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1  package says "CentOS
release 5 (Final)". Same goes for /etc/redhat-release. The '
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1" package name tells me that I am on 5.1 on
home desktop.

Here  is excerpt from CentOS 5 FAQ at http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5
"9. The content of /etc/redhat-release does not change after I upgraded to a
new release?

Starting from CentOS 5.1 the Upstream OS Provider will be providing updates
for each point release (5.1.1,5.1.2 ...) for a period of time next to the
latest version of the 5 series.

To know in which release you are the CentOS team will be using the following
scheme. If the */etc/redhat-release* file contains "CentOS release 5
(final)" then you are on the latest point release of CentOS (5.1 at the time
of this entry).

If it contains "CentOS release 5.1.z (Branch)" for example then you are in
the update release stream for the 5.1 series and you will not move to a
newer release without manually telling yum to do so.

To actually verify on what release you are, run the command
rpm -q centos-release."





On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote:

> What does cat /etc/issue say?
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> > Now I'm a bit confused.  I just realized that I DID install 5.1.  I'm
> > confused because
> >
> > [root at qos yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> > CentOS release 5 (Final)
> >
> >
> >
> > timothy at meanor.net wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, I forgot that it has the $releasever variable in the path to the
> repos.  According to the man page for yum.conf, $releasever is replaced with
> the version of the package specified by distroverpkg in yum.conf (which by
> default is redhat-release).  His redhat-release says 5, so "yum -y update"
> will only get updates for version 5.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the thing to do is to download the redhat-release package for
> 5.1, install that, than run "yum -y update" again.
> >>
> >> -Tim
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>> 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...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Brian
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM,  <timothy at meanor.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> You'll need to update the files in /etc/yum.d to point to the centos
> 5.1
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> repo (you should simply be able to change /pub/centos/5.0 to
> /pub/centos/5.1
> >>>> in each of these files).  Once you do that, you can do a "yum -y
> update".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> -Tim
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> Jerry Yu wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 'yum -y update' should do.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I tried that but cat /etc/redhat-release says 5 not 5.1
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