CentOS - Oct 2005 - Newbie Questions

Recent convert from WhiteBox, a few questions

What is the difference between CentOS 4.2 and "4"? Is this like the
Whitebox
"respin"? Are updates/packages for 4.2 applicable across all the
"4" series
of releases? 

-Ben 

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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:37 -0700, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> Recent convert from WhiteBox, a few questions
> 
> What is the difference between CentOS 4.2 and "4"? Is this like
the Whitebox
> "respin"? Are updates/packages for 4.2 applicable across all the
"4" series
> of releases? 
> 
> -Ben 
> 
That is exactly what it is like ... the real release is CentOS 4 ...
like EL4 is the upstream release.

EL4 Update 2 (or respin 2 in the WBEL case) is CentOS 4.2

and for CentOS 3 ... 3.6 is EL3 update 6, etc.

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The norm on our mirrors (for updates) is to point to the /centos/4/ tree
(for CentOS 4, or the /centos/3/ tree for CentOS 3) ... which is a
symlink that we will always point to the latest release ... /4/ is now
set to point to 4.2.

After about a week ... 4.1 will be moved to the vault.centos.org


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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:37 -0700, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> What is the difference between CentOS 4.2 and "4"? Is this like
the Whitebox
> "respin"? Are updates/packages for 4.2 applicable across all the
"4" series
> of releases? 
CentOS X == RHEL X
CentOS X.Y == RHEL X UY

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://centos.ivazquez.net/

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