CentOS 4.6 Release Notes

• CentOS 4 offers both yum and up2date to do updates of the operating system. You can use either or both of these to manage your updates.

  Note

  Prior to using yum, you must import the RPM-GPG-KEY for CentOS-4 like this

  rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY

 

The following files are changed from the upstream RPMS. All changes are trademark and look/feel related unless otherwise noted under the specific RPM.

 

 

• anaconda

Path of the Distribution changed from RedHat to CentOS on the install CDs.

 

• anaconda-help

• anaconda-product

• anaconda-runtime

• centos-release

File name changed from redhat-release in the upstream product.

 

• desktop-backgrounds-basic

• desktop-backgrounds-extra

• firefox

In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

 

• firstboot

• glade2

Corrected a race condition. See bug#855 at bugs.centos.org.

• gnome-desktop

• gnome-desktop-devel

• gnome-session

• httpd

• httpd-devel

• httpd-manual

• httpd-suexec

• indexhtml

• initscripts

• kdebase and kdebase-devel

• libIDL and libIDL-devel

• mod_ssl

• redhat-artwork

• redhat-logos

• redhat-release and rpmdb-redhat

These packages are replaced by centos-release and rpmdb-CentOS.

 

• rhgb

• rhn-applet

Modified to not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror Network.

 

• seamonkey

In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

 

• seamonkey-chat

• seamonkey-devel

• seamonkey-dom-inspector

• seamonkey-js-debugger

• seamonkey-mail

• seamonkey-nspr

• seamonkey-nspr-devel

• seamonkey-nss

• seamonkey-nss-devel

• squirrelmail

• thunderbird

In addition to numerous shortcut changes, added the CACert.org certificate as a trusted Certificate Authority. See CentOS.org for details.

 

• up2date

Modified to not use the RHN and to instead use the CentOS Mirror Network.

 

• up2date-gnome

 

Note:

The following packages are added to CentOS and are not in the upstream product to allow the use of yum for updates:

 

 

• createrepo

• sqlite

• sqlite-devel

• python-elementtree

• python-sqlite

• python-urlgrabber

• yum

• yum-metadata-parser

 

For more Information, see the CentOS-4 Documentation at CentOS.org, or the /NOTES directory on CD-1 of this distribution. The documentation is provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®,Inc. The CentOS Project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-4. CentOS-4 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMs.

 

CentOS has added the yum-metadata-parser in version 4.6 to help speed up yum updates.