[ale] CentOS repositories question

[Beddingfield, Allen]

We have a number of vendors who require exact versions.  We have several products that support exactly RHEL 6.2, down to specifying certain packages that can’t be patched from the version on the original media.  We run RHEL on the production server, and CentOS on the test and dev servers, and keep them at the same patch level.  (Anything that doesn’t have weird vendor requirements goes on SLES).  Also, we have a bureaucratic and fairly rigid change control process, so upgrading to the latest release (or even applying patches) to many things is a huge ordeal. - this applies to most production systems that have a large user base.  Luckily, I can usually get away with updating sshd and apache with only one meeting.  A “zypper up” or “yum update” requires much more red tape in most cases - depending on who owns the system, if it is high profile, etc…
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama


From: leam hall
Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS repositories question


Why would you not stay with the current?

On May 7, 2015 5:36 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
Looks like I’m going to need a lot more disk space than I thought!
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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<mailto: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<mailto: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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