On 10/21/2011 9:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems.
I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc...
Am I receiving security updates via 'yum update', which as far as I can tell hasn't installed any updates for quite a few months??
If not, what do I need to do to get security updates?
These are not production systems, but I don't want to break anything unless it's broken already (i.e. security vulnerabilities and bug fixes).
You have two choices.
- Enable the CR repo. This will let you update to packages that have
been built for 6.1 as they become available. It is possible that there might be a few minor issues with these packages as they have been built for 6.1, but they should be fine for the most part.
- Leave things as they are and when 6.1 becomes available, your normal
'yum update' will update you to 6.1 all at once. The downside here is that you have to wait until 6.1 is done before you get any more updates.
So Centos 6.0 is EOL?
Keep in mind that CentOS 6.0 is just a point-in-time view of CentOS 6. Unless you have very specific (and unusual) requirements, you should continue to upgrade to all of the CentOS 6.x releases.
RHEL 6 (and thus CentOS 6) should be supported through Nov 2017.