UPDATE Re: Upgrade from 4.0 to 4.0.1

[beartooth]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:43:39 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

>> Fwiw, the screensavers that list OS all still say the machine I asked
>> about is running 4.0, despite nightly yum update.
>> 
>> Are they wrong? Or if not, with "yum upgrade" deprecated, how can I
>> best get 4.0.1?
> 
> It won't say 4.0.1 anywhere even if you install from the 4.0.1 discs.
> It'll say 4.0 everywhere. Typing "yum upgrade" is only deprecated in
> favor of typing "yum update" instead. For now, they do the same thing,
> and get you to the same state on 4.0 as on a 4.0.1 system.

OK, thanks for that!

Methinks my no doubt Very Dumb Question now becomes : So how do I check
what version of the OS I'm actually running? (Among other things, I've
actually had much poorer luck with yum under YDL than under Fedora -- so I
do *not* take it for granted that my nightly yum update will have actually
succeeded; and this seems a good way to test it.)

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