[ale] CentOS repositories question

[Jim Kinney]

Sometimes 3rd party code is only validated for a particular base release. I see that as basically BS as the core of the release is fixed in time and security and bugs backported. 

That said, I've been bit too many times by crap using a bug as a feature and the fix breaks the app (everything java comes to mind). That's what QA is for but lots of smaller shops basically do devel on production setups. Devs have fun but the admins get run ragged.

On May 7, 2015 5:41:59 PM EDT, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.
>>>>   --
>>>> Allen Beddingfield
>>>> Systems Engineer
>>>> The University of Alabama
>>>>
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