[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

[Rich Walker]

Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> writes:

> Jason Clifford writes:
>
>>It doesn't change the fact that changing from *version 4.1* to **version 
>>4.2** is also a version upgrade and also made significant changes.
>
> No, I'd have to disagree with this. Are you claiming that running
> "apt-get update" constitutes a version upgrade? 

If the machine is running testing, then yes, you should treat it as
such.

If it's running stable, then no.

> Because that's all this is. For convenience, RHEL package up the base
> OS with all the latest updates applied, and that's all that CentOS
> have copied here.  There's no significance to the version number,
> other than "it contains all the updates up to XYZ date".

Is there broad incremental testing of the updates that are going to
occur when you do the 4.1->4.2 transition, as there is in
Debian/testing?

cheers, Rich.

>
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