[Gllug] CentOS and RHES

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Oct 26 18:59:34 UTC 2005


Jason Clifford wrote:
> "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"

"yum update" will also only update currently installed packages. The 
only time a new package is installed is when a package presently 
installed has an update which has a new dependancy.

I recommend you take a minute of your time to really try and comprehend 
how Redhat and CentOS do their Versioning.

- KB



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