[CentOS] gnutls bug

[David C. Miller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Harris" <lists at spuddy.org>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:43:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] gnutls bug
> 
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:12:49PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Michael Coffman
> > > updated.  I did not realize that once the OS was vaulted, there
> > > were no
> > > more updates.   Now I know so thanks...
> > 
> > No, what everyone has said is that there _are_ updates, and yum
> > knows
> > how to get them, even selectively.
> 
> More to the point, "6.4" and "6.5" are just markers in the sand for
> "CentOS 6".  6.5 is basically just a rebasing of the packages to make
> it
> easier to install; it's an accumulation of updates for 6.4 in an easy
> to digest form.
> 
> If you stop thinking of "6.4" and "6.5" as different OS's but as the
> same
> OS but at different parts of their patch lifecycle then it becomes a
> lot
> simpler.
> 

Perhaps a good analogy is with old and crusty WindowsXP. You have the original release of WindowsXP(CentOS 6.0), then came WindowsXP service pack1(centOS 6.1), then service pack2(centos 6.2), etc. The one big difference is that you can pick and choose exactly which packages that ship with CentOS get updated. So in your case all you would need to do is "yum update gnutls" and that would save you from having to compile from source. 

I have to ask though, How did you stand up an HPC cluster and individual CentOS nodes without learning how this works?

David C. Miller