On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:42:09PM -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke alleged: > Hi, > > Redhat announced RHEL 5.1 on Nov 07, so hopefully > CentOS 5.1 will be ready shortly. But I get kind of > nervous of the arrival of 5.1. > > My problem is: I have hundreds Centos 5.0 boxes just > finished installation and I will continue to install > and upgrade hundreds more in next few months. With the > arrival of Centos 5.1, I don't like to reinstall them > anymore but continuous upgrade instead -- if this is > possible?
Don't think of 5.0 and 5.1 as different distros. They are the same distro. Think of it as a bunch of non-critical updates that were withheld from the regular update cycle, tested as a set, and released all at once with a new installer image. It is just an update, analogous to a Windows service pack. Think of RHEL5 as the distro, evolving through time, and 5.1 as a well-tested snapshot of RHEL5 at a particular point in time. A regular 'yum update' will bring in all of the new updates. There is no need to reinstall the OS.
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