On 02/18/2016 07:57 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 02/17/2016 06:30 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
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For C6 users:
- If you want to update to xen-46, and also get further updates automatically:
yum install centos-release-xen-46
Would this be instead (to get latest and always stay one latest):
yum remove centos-release-xen44 centos-release-xen46 yum install centos-release-xen
(instead of installing centos-release-xen46)
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As discussed on this list in the past .. the SIG in general is going to maintain 1 version of xen current for each CentOS version. And the goal currently (as I understand it) is to move to every even point release, if that release works within the gcc/glibc parameters for that CentOS Version.
So, xen 4.8 will be the one following 4.6, etc.
That means that the older versions (ie 4.4 on CentOS-6) will be orphaned if someone from the community does not step up, join the SIG, and maintain the packages.
Specifically for Xen-4.4.x on CentOS-6, I will maintain that so long as upstream xenproject.org continues to produce XSA patches for Xen-4.4. Once xenproject.org stops support for xen-4.4 then an announcement will be made and that branch will stop being updated.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes