[ale] CentOS repositories question

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Why would you not stay with the current?
On May 7, 2015 5:36 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

>   Looks like I’m going to need a lot more disk space than I thought!
>   --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
>
>   From: Brian Stanaland
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 4:33 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS repositories question
>
>   Jim's correct. This bit us once. We had systems set to update from "6"
> and were quite surprised when one of the packages we needed got updated. We
> changed to mirroring the 6.0 branch and everything was fine.
>
>  --Brian
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The '6' repo is the latest in the 6 series. The 6.2 only has the release
>> and patches for that exact version. That's why there's a 6.0 in the repo.
>>  On May 7, 2015 5:24 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>   I know there are a lot of CentOS users on the group, so I thought
>>> someone could answer this question….
>>> Do the /centos/6/os/x86_64 and /centos/6/updates/x86_64 repos have all
>>> of the 6.x updates, or are these just for the 6.0 release?  I noticed that
>>> there are variations for /centos/6.1/os/x86_64, /centos/6.1/updates/x86_64,
>>> all the way through 6.6.
>>>
>>>  Here is the reason I’m asking:
>>> I’m finally getting around to pulling in the updates into our SUSE
>>> Manager server (Spacewalk-based), and I’m needing to pull down the repos
>>> into channels.  Here is a brief description of that process:
>>> https://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SUSE_Manager/Managing_CentOS
>>>
>>>  Do I actually need to pull down a separate set for 6 through 6.6, if I
>>> have systems at all those various releases, or will pulling down just “6”
>>> cover it?  I was under the impression that it was the case, until I started
>>> poking around on one of the mirrors and found specific ones for each
>>> release.  I would just try it and find out, but it takes quite a while to
>>> pull one of these repos down.
>>>
>>>  Thanks.
>>> Allen B.
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>>> Allen Beddingfield
>>> Systems Engineer
>>> The University of Alabama
>>>
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