[Arm-dev] CentOS - Support for 7.6

[Gordan Bobic]

Yes, I always treated it as a continuous release (as per the CR
repository). The point releases always seemed pretty arbitrary to me.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:35 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> On 18/09/2019 17:35, Stephan Guilloux wrote:
> > I guessed it was "only the latest version is supported".
> > Was just wondering, if there is something more "established", than "at
> > one point".
> >
> > Anyway, I got another answer: No update for 7.6 packages will come, in a
> > near futur.
> >
> > And yes, we'll work on this update ;-)
> >
> > Thx.
> >
>
> Hi Stephan,
>
> Something to really understand is that there is always only one CentOS 7
> .. point :)
> the major.minor version just reflects a kind of "snapshot in time" of
> when the installer was ran against new set of pkgs, (including rebased
> ones) landing in upstream RHEL 7.
> So any centos 7 installs is just automatically using $latest (which is
> the only one that really exists), as yum update is pointed to those
> repositories, while older ones (unmaintained, frozen) are archived to
> vault.centos.org, (but just there as reference, as there is a clear
> disclaimer that "there will be dragons" for people just pointing to
> insecure/unmaintained pkgs sets :)
>
>
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