Hi, IT seems, centos6.3 does no longer get any updates esp security fixes as per readme here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.3/readme
Is there updated source RPMs that can be rebuilt and hand patched, for example, nss-util 3.21.0-2 or openssl 1.0.1e that can be safely used on CentOS 6.3? Any other options that you can shed some light on, highly appreciated for above examples. My apologies if this is not the right group to post such questions or if any existing literature available for same, please kindly refer to right place.
The other option is to use CentOS 6.8 updated package on 6.3, but I am not sure of any upstream and downstream dependencies in 6.3 without updating the rest of the userland from 6.3 to 6.8. Nonetheless, would this option be feasible?
Appreciated very much, Thank you.
On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Dipal Bhatt dipal.bhatt@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, IT seems, centos6.3 does no longer get any updates esp security fixes as per readme here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.3/readme http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.3/readme
I believe there’s some confusion about how CentOS release versions work.
You should read this FAQ entry:
https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-dcca41e9a3d5ac4c6d900a991990fd11930... https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-dcca41e9a3d5ac4c6d900a991990fd11930867d6
Basically, there is no supported CentOS 6.3 release. Only a CentOS 6, with updates continuously released throughout its lifetime. Just because you used the installation media for CentOS 6.3 doesn’t mean that you will stay with it forever. You should change your repos to use /6/ and update to the latest release. There’s no other supported release of CentOS 6.
Your system is horribly out of date and vulnerable to many MANY security vulnerabilities, both remote and local.
Red Hat supported the EUS release of 6.3.z but even that ceased getting updates a while ago, I believe. I’m sure if you pay them enough money, they’d be willing to backport updates to 6.3.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
On 11/7/2016 6:03 PM, Dipal Bhatt wrote:
The other option is to use CentOS 6.8 updated package on 6.3, but I am not sure of any upstream and downstream dependencies in 6.3 without updating the rest of the userland from 6.3 to 6.8. Nonetheless, would this option be feasible?
yum update
will bring the system up to the latest 6 with all updates, currently that's 6.8 + assorted updates.
the dot releases of centos, like 6.3, 6.8, are just quarterly(?) rollups where they put out a new ISO with all updates to that point.
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