On 05/10/2012 12:36 AM, Gregory Machin wrote:
Hi. At the moment it seems my machines just update to the latest current release . I install a 6.0 machine and run yum update , and next thing its 6.2 .
I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. But will allow updates within a given release.
How can I achieve this ?
It sounds like you would be happier with the Scientific Linux update paradigm. There by default you stay at a particular point release receiving only later security updates (along with any needed dependencies) until you manually run yum with "releasever=" specifying the point release to which you wish to upgrade. You can still get the RHEL/CentOS automatic upgrade paradigm by editing the .repo files and replacing "$releasever" with "6x" (that's a literal "x"), but that's not how it works by default.