/etc/issue from centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 package says "CentOS release 5 (Final)". Same goes for /etc/redhat-release. The '<br>centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1" package name tells me that I am on 5.1 on home desktop.<br>
<br>Here is excerpt from CentOS 5 FAQ at <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5</a><br><h2 id="head-51ce9db5abbde6b4dbe39b0531d01b34f80fb606">"9. The content of /etc/redhat-release does not change after I upgraded to a new release?</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="line-91"></span><p class="line874">Starting
from CentOS 5.1 the Upstream OS Provider will be providing updates for
each point release (5.1.1,5.1.2 ...) for a period of time next to the
latest version of the 5 series. <span class="anchor" id="line-92"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-93"></span></p><p class="line862">To know in which release you are the CentOS team will be using the following scheme. If the <em>/etc/redhat-release</em> file contains "CentOS release 5 (final)" then you are on the latest point release of CentOS (5.1 at the time of this entry). <span class="anchor" id="line-94"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-95"></span></p>
<p class="line874">If
it contains "CentOS release 5.1.z (Branch)" for example then you are in
the update release stream for the 5.1 series and you will not move to a
newer release without manually telling yum to do so. <span class="anchor" id="line-96"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-97"></span></p><p class="line862">To actually verify on what release you are, run the command <tt>rpm -q centos-release</tt>."</p>
<br><br><p class="line862"><br></p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jim Lynch <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What does cat /etc/issue say?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
> Now I'm a bit confused. I just realized that I DID install 5.1. I'm<br>
> confused because<br>
><br>
> [root@qos yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release<br>
> CentOS release 5 (Final)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> <a href="mailto:timothy@meanor.net">timothy@meanor.net</a> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Ah, I forgot that it has the $releasever variable in the path to the repos. According to the man page for yum.conf, $releasever is replaced with the version of the package specified by distroverpkg in yum.conf (which by default is redhat-release). His redhat-release says 5, so "yum -y update" will only get updates for version 5.<br>
>><br>
>> Perhaps the thing to do is to download the redhat-release package for 5.1, install that, than run "yum -y update" again.<br>
>><br>
>> -Tim<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>>> I'm kind of confused. Unless he's changed the repo files manually,<br>
>>>> they should point to $releasever, which upon releasing 5.1, should now<br>
>>>> point to the new updated files, and he should be able to upgrade...<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> If they are changed, then yes, that explains the breakage. If not,<br>
>>>> something weird is going on...<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Brian<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:52 AM, <<a href="mailto:timothy@meanor.net">timothy@meanor.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> You'll need to update the files in /etc/yum.d to point to the centos 5.1<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>> repo (you should simply be able to change /pub/centos/5.0 to /pub/centos/5.1<br>
>>>> in each of these files). Once you do that, you can do a "yum -y update".<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> -Tim<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> Jerry Yu wrote:<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> 'yum -y update' should do.<br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> I tried that but cat /etc/redhat-release says 5 not 5.1<br>
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