On 01/26/2017 06:00 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
My system is 7.2.1511.
When I run "yum update", it wants to install about 900 packages total. Most are labeled just "el7". A few "el7_1" and a lot are "el7_3" or 7.3. None are 7.2.
I'm not surprised when I see 50-100 packages needing an update. But 900? And none specific to the installed system?
My last update, of 4 packages, was Dec 31, 2016. I first noted the current behavior about 10 days later and have been trying to figure out why such an unusual report.
CentOS 7 is the release .. point releases (7.0.1406, 7.1.1503, 7.2.1511, 7.3.1611), are 'point in time' snapshots of the CentOS 7 tree.
CentOS has no mechanism to stay on 7.2.1511 when 7.3.1611 has been released. 7.3 and 7.2 are really just CentOS-7 with updates.
The update you are seeing is the CentOS-7 tree after we finished releasing all the 7.3.1611 packages (and updates to 7.3.1611)