CentOS 4.5 released
20070520: If you will run today **yum **(or up2date) on a Centos 4 system you will notice that there are many updated packages available. This is happening because Centos has released the 5th update of Centos-4 a few days ago and now this update is appearing on Centos mirrors.
You can quickly check your running version using:
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.4 (Final)
after the update it will look like this:
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release <strong>4.5</strong> (Final)
From the Centos official announce: “Major changes for this version are:
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The up2date options “–undo” and “–list-rollbacks” are now deprecated. You must use “yum remove pkg_name” or “rpm -e pkg_name” to remove packages, or “rpm -Uvh –oldpackage –nosignature –nodigest pkg_name” to revert to an older package.
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CentOS-4.5 contains a Xen kernel that is now supported as a paravirtualized (PV) Guest, but it cannot be used as a dom0. There are issues with erratic mouse movements in PV Guests that will be corrected in future updates. You can install CentOS-4.5 PV Guests onto CentOS-5 machines, using the CentOS-5 Xen kernel as Dom0 and the CentOS-4.5 PV Guest as DomU.
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There is a technology preview of OpenOffice-2.0 included in the updates directory. You can install this OOo2 preview alongside the current OOo-1.1.5 version, or you may install the OOo2 preview alone. We apologize that this was not included on the ISOs, however it was not on the upstream ISOs and we followed that layout.”
Please see the CentOS specific release notes here.
ps. on a clean system with only the base packages this update has shown 129 package updates and 3 new installs (kernels and one dep). Here is the yum output:
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
kernel i686 2.6.9-55.EL base 11 M
kernel-smp i686 2.6.9-55.EL base 11 M
Updating:
NetworkManager i386 0.3.1-4.el4 base 87 k
SysVinit i386 2.85-34.4 base 96 k
acl i386 2.2.23-5.3.el4 base 59 k
aspell i386 12:0.50.5-4.EL4 base 320 k
attr i386 2.4.16-3.1.el4 base 45 k
audit i386 1.0.15-3.EL4 base 200 k
audit-libs i386 1.0.15-3.EL4 base 38 k
autofs i386 1:4.1.3-199.3 base 245 k
binutils i386 2.15.92.0.2-22 base 2.8 M
bluez-utils i386 2.10-2.2 update 149 k
centos-release i386 6:4-4.3 base 22 k
chkconfig i386 1.3.13.5.EL4-1 base 129 k
comps i386 2:4.5CENTOS-0.20070506 base 9.2 M
coreutils i386 5.2.1-31.6 base 2.9 M
cpio i386 2.5-13.RHEL4 base 46 k
cracklib i386 2.8.9-1.3 base 56 k
cracklib-dicts i386 2.8.9-1.3 base 3.6 M
crash i386 4.0-3.9 base 1.3 M
cups i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20 base 1.5 M
cups-libs i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20 base 110 k
dbus i386 0.22-12.EL.9 base 457 k
dbus-glib i386 0.22-12.EL.9 base 38 k
desktop-file-utils i386 0.9-3.el4 base 108 k
device-mapper i386 1.02.17-3.0.1.el4 update 515 k
dhclient i386 7:3.0.1-59.EL4 base 225 k
dhcpv6_client i386 0.10-17_EL4 base 70 k
diskdumputils i386 1.3.25-1 base 85 k
dmraid i386 1.0.0.rc14-5_RHEL4_U5 base 690 k
dosfstools i386 2.8-18 base 64 k
e2fsprogs i386 1.35-12.5.el4 base 772 k
elfutils i386 0.97.1-4 base 136 k
elfutils-libelf i386 0.97.1-4 base 38 k
findutils i386 1:4.1.20-7.el4.3 base 108 k
ftp i386 0.17-23.EL4 base 48 k
glibc i686 2.3.4-2.36 base 5.9 M
glibc-common i386 2.3.4-2.36 base 16 M
grep i386 2.5.1-32.3 base 169 k
grub i386 0.95-3.8 base 434 k
hal i386 0.4.2-6.EL4 base 152 k
hotplug i386 3:2004_04_01-7.8 base 62 k
hwdata noarch 0.146.28.EL-1 base 357 k
initscripts i386 7.93.29.EL-1.centos4 base 1.1 M
iproute i386 2.6.9-3.EL4.7 base 680 k
iputils i386 20020927-19.EL4.5 base 104 k
jpackage-utils noarch 1.7.3-1jpp.1.el4 base 60 k
kbd i386 1.12-2.el4.4 base 1.1 M
kernel-utils i386 1:2.4-13.1.99 base 627 k
krb5-libs i386 1.3.4-47 base 482 k
krb5-workstation i386 1.3.4-47 base 815 k
kudzu i386 1.1.95.22-1 base 329 k
less i386 382-4.rhel4 base 84 k
libacl i386 2.2.23-5.3.el4 base 16 k
libattr i386 2.4.16-3.1.el4 base 15 k
libgcc i386 3.4.6-8 base 63 k
libpng i386 2:1.2.7-3.el4 update 155 k
libselinux i386 1.19.1-7.3 base 55 k
libstdc++ i386 3.4.6-8 base 282 k
libxml2 i386 2.6.16-10 base 620 k
libxml2-python i386 2.6.16-10 base 439 k
logrotate i386 3.7.1-6.RHEL4 base 32 k
logwatch noarch 5.2.2-2.EL4 base 132 k
lvm2 i386 2.02.21-5.el4 base 2.0 M
mailx i386 8.1.1-37.EL4 base 49 k
man i386 1.5o1-10.rhel4 base 243 k
man-pages noarch 1.67-12.EL4 base 3.9 M
mc i386 1:4.6.1-0.8.5 base 1.7 M
mdadm i386 1.12.0-2 base 93 k
mkinitrd i386 4.2.1.10-1.1 base 95 k
module-init-tools i386 3.1-0.pre5.3.4 base 347 k
net-snmp i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10 base 504 k
net-snmp-libs i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10 base 1.7 M
net-snmp-utils i386 5.1.2-11.EL4.10 base 156 k
net-tools i386 1.60-37.EL4.9 base 340 k
netdump i386 0.7.16-10 base 16 k
nfs-utils i386 1.0.6-80.EL4 base 279 k
nfs-utils-lib i386 1.0.6-8 base 49 k
nscd i386 2.3.4-2.36 base 132 k
nss_ldap i386 226-18 base 1.0 M
ntp i386 4.2.0.a.20040617-6.el4 base 1.2 M
ntsysv i386 1.3.13.5.EL4-1 base 21 k
numactl i386 0.6.4-1.39 base 45 k
openldap i386 2.2.13-7.4E base 236 k
openssh i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 base 323 k
openssh-clients i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 base 345 k
openssh-server i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 base 210 k
openssl i686 0.9.7a-43.16 base 1.1 M
pam i386 0.77-66.21 base 1.9 M
pam_ccreds i386 3-3.rhel4.2 base 18 k
parted i386 1.6.19-16.EL base 488 k
pciutils i386 2.1.99.test8-3.4 base 68 k
policycoreutils i386 1.18.1-4.12 base 48 k
popt i386 1.9.1-22_nonptl base 60 k
procps i386 3.2.3-8.6 base 188 k
psacct i386 6.3.2-39.rhel4 base 53 k
python i386 2.3.4-14.4 base 4.8 M
python-elementtree i386 1.2.6-5.el4.centos base 88 k
python-sqlite i386 1.1.7-1.2.1 base 37 k
quota i386 1:3.12-6.el4 base 304 k
rdist i386 1:6.1.5-38.40.2 base 89 k
rhnlib noarch 2.1.1-3.el4 base 101 k
rhpl i386 0.148.5-1 base 289 k
rpm i386 4.3.3-22_nonptl base 650 k
rpm-libs i386 4.3.3-22_nonptl base 784 k
rpm-python i386 4.3.3-22_nonptl base 80 k
rpmdb-CentOS i386 2:4.5-0.20070506 base 28 M
samba i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 update 13 M
samba-client i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 update 2.6 M
samba-common i386 3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 update 5.0 M
sed i386 4.1.2-6.el4 base 167 k
selinux-policy-targeted noarch 1.17.30-2.145 base 124 k
sendmail i386 8.13.1-3.2.el4 base 577 k
setools i386 2.3-4 base 808 k
shadow-utils i386 2:4.0.3-61.RHEL4 base 588 k
sqlite i386 3.3.6-2 base 193 k
sysstat i386 5.0.5-15.0.1.el4 update 104 k
system-config-samba noarch 1.2.21-1.el4.1 base 191 k
tcsh i386 6.13-9.el4.1 base 585 k
traceroute i386 1.4a12-24.EL4.1 base 25 k
unzip i386 5.51-9.EL4.5 base 142 k
up2date i386 4.5.5-5.centos4 base 1.8 M
usbutils i386 0.11-7.RHEL4.1 base 40 k
usermode i386 1.74-2 base 138 k
util-linux i386 2.12a-16.EL4.25 base 1.5 M
vixie-cron i386 4:4.1-47.EL4 update 81 k
words noarch 3.0-3.2 base 1.4 M
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 383 k
xorg-x11-libs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.18 base 2.7 M
ypbind i386 3:1.17.2-13 base 33 k
yum noarch 2.4.3-3.el4.centos base 385 k
Installing for dependencies:
tcl i386 8.4.7-2 base 897 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 3 Package(s)
Update 129 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 165 M
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