Hello,
Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2?
No more updates for v6.1. This is the RedHat/CentOS model. Think of the minor version numbers as 'service packs', as opposed to releases.
For example, let X < Y. Then, Everything fixed in 6.x is also fixed in 6.y. However, updates new to v6.y are not made available for v6.x.
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From: "Edward Martinez" edwardm1@live.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:31:19 PM Subject: [CentOS] Will CentOS 6.1 still be supported?
Hello,
Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Le 21/12/2011 21:31, Edward Martinez a écrit :
Hello,
Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2?
6.2 is an update. So if you do an 'yum update', you will see a lot of packages being updated, and you will be automatically at 6.2. Why would you stay at 6.1 ? During all the life of a major version, 6.x for example, there are the same versions of packages, only with updates.
For information, Scientific Linux does not work this way. You stay at a point version, 6.1 for example, and get updates for this point release (as CR repository). You have to ask explicitly to upgrade to next point release.
Alain
On 12/21/2011 3:31 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
Hello,
Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2?
Updates are available for 6.1. Apply them and you have 6.2...
Think of the point releases as a large collection of updates.
On 12/21/11 12:07, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 12/21/2011 3:31 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
Hello,
Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2?
Updates are available for 6.1. Apply them and you have 6.2...
Think of the point releases as a large collection of updates.
Now I understand, I'm currently downloading 254 packages, once it finishes downloading, then i will be using 6.2, presumably i need to reboot the OS. So redhat/centos model works different than Fedoras; where the previous release is still supported for approximately 13 months.
Thanks to everybody for explaining redhat/centos model:-)
On 12/21/11 1:30 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
Now I understand, I'm currently downloading 254 packages, once itfinishes downloading, then i will be using 6.2, presumably i need to reboot the OS. So redhat/centos model works different than Fedoras; where the previous release is still supported for approximately 13 months.
the previous release (centos 5) is supported for like 7 years or something.
fedora doesn't have rollups or point releases at all.
On 12/21/11 13:00, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/21/11 1:30 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
Now I understand, I'm currently downloading 254 packages, once itfinishes downloading, then i will be using 6.2, presumably i need to reboot the OS. So redhat/centos model works different than Fedoras; where the previous release is still supported for approximately 13 months.
the previous release (centos 5) is supported for like 7 years or something.
fedora doesn't have rollups or point releases at all.
Thinking about it I should of used OpenBSD's model; when they do a point release every six months, the previous point release is still maintained, until another point release. . Now I understand that redhat/centos uses a different model; where the newest point release replaces the previous point release. Hope i got it:-)
Hello,
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:46:17 -0800 Edward Martinez edwardm1@live.com wrote:
On 12/21/11 13:00, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/21/11 1:30 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
Now I understand, I'm currently downloading 254 packages, once itfinishes downloading, then i will be using 6.2, presumably i need to reboot the OS. So redhat/centos model works different than Fedoras; where the previous release is still supported for approximately 13 months.
the previous release (centos 5) is supported for like 7 years or something.
fedora doesn't have rollups or point releases at all.
Thinking about it I should of used OpenBSD's model; when they do apoint release every six months, the previous point release is still maintained, until another point release. . Now I understand that redhat/centos uses a different model; where the newest point release replaces the previous point release. Hope i got it:-)
Yep, and this is exactly why I switched from Fedora to CentOS, and I'm happy with it!
Regards,
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