Will Yum Upgrade My Release

carlosinfl · 08-12-2010, 04:43 PM

I was told I need to build / configure a RHEL 5.1 server. I did so using the old ISO I downloaded from Red Hat's site. My question is if I do a 'yum upgrade' command, will that then change my release date from 5.1 to 5.5?

Thanks for any info.

AlucardZero · 08-12-2010, 09:17 PM

yes. RHEL updates are linear and there is only one path.

DrLove73 · 08-13-2010, 03:26 AM

If you must stay with 5.1, I think there is possibility to tweak yum *.repo files to look at ".../5.1/..." instead of ".../5/..." inside http links, so you can sidetrack your system to a dead-end 5.1. version.

carlosinfl · 08-13-2010, 07:12 AM

If I run 'yum update' and not 'yum upgrade' it appears to leave me on version 5.1.

**disregard this incorrect statement**