CentOS 4 Release Notes

Introduction

  • 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-10.1.1.19-1.centos4.i386.rpm

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

  • anaconda-help

  • anaconda-product

  • anaconda-runtime

  • createrepo

    • Added for use with yum.

  • centos-release

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

  • centos-yumconf

    • This is the configuration file for yum.

  • dhclient

  • dhcp

    • This file had to be compiled on an older version of gcc than ships with CentOS-4 and was modified to accomplish this. See bug#861 at bugs.centos.org

  • dhcp-devel

  • 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

  • mod_perl

  • mod_perl-devel

  • mod_ssl

  • mozilla

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

  • mozilla-chat

  • mozilla-devel

  • mozilla-dom-inspector

  • mozilla-js-debugger

  • mozilla-mail-1.7.8

  • mozilla-nspr-1.7.8

  • mozilla-nspr-devel

  • mozilla-nss

  • mozilla-nss-devel

  • redhat-artwork

  • redhat-logos

  • rhn-applet

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

  • squirrelmail

  • up2date

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

  • up2date-gnome

  • yum

    • Added as the primary package installer for CentOS-4.

Note:We have also added the following packages in CentOS-4.2 due to an upgrade in yum to 2.4.x:

  • sqlite


  • sqlite-devel


  • python-elementtree


  • python-sqlite


  • python-urlgrabber


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.