[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Tethys wrote:

> >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? 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".

"apt-get update" will update the current version. To update to a new 
version of the distro (eg from 3.0 to 3.1) requires the use of "apt-get 
distro-update"

That's an aside however as the fact remains that it was a version upgrade 
- even if the version number increment was minor.

It introduced additional software without the system operator actually 
choosing to install it and altered the behaviour of at least one major 
component.

Jason
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