On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, at 09:22, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Wed, October 29, 2014 9:06 am, Steve Clark wrote:
On 10/29/2014 10:02 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running CentOS 6 (6.5 iirc) on my wife's machine, which I've been updating pretty much every day. Today yum got 425 packages!
Somewhere a dam must have broken. Sometimes some of us don't appreciate how much work the developers do.
Strength to their arms, and many heartfelt thanks!
+100
Me too. I was [mistakenly, apparently] always considering 5.[n+1], 6.[m+1] just re-spins, thus providing latest packages with _backported_ security patches/bugfixes, aimed at providing installation media that is not entail millions of updates. "Releases" with newer versions, drivers included in kernel shuffled, the new kernel (without any necessity in it) which causes hassle to reboot the box... This all effectively defeats the "Enterprise" portion of the name of the system, doesn't it?
I had a customer with a Violin SAN and they couldn't update their RHEL/CentOS servers any higher than a certain point release not because the driver broke, but because the rest of the provided glue broke. I can't recall the fine details, but I'm pretty sure it was a major change to udev in the middle of a major release.
I don't understand the direction that has been taken. Anything that runs on 6.0 should run flawlessly on 6.6. Period.