[CentOS-devel] missing updates for CentOS6

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/05/2016 04:35 AM, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 10:45 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 02/05/2016 03:06 AM, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've been busy building updated RH packages for armv5tel
>>> (http://www.redsleeve.org/).
>>>
>>> During that process I often use repodiff to check if there are updates.
>>> And I also use repodiff to the CentOS repos. (of you didn't build it
>>> it's often also of no use to me :) )
>>>
>>> this time around I noticed that CentOS6 was missing a couple of updates.
>>> So here a modified output of repodiff.
>>>
>>> repodiff -o
>>> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ -n
>>> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/os/Source/ -n
>>> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/updates/Source/  --downgrade --simple
>>>
>>> Downgraded Packages:
>>>
>>> cups-pk-helper: cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-13.el6 ->  cups-pk-helper-0.0.4-12.el6
>>> dvd+rw-tools: dvd+rw-tools-7.1-7.el6 ->  dvd+rw-tools-7.1-6.el6
>>> environment-modules: environment-modules-3.2.10-3.el6 -> 
>>> environment-modules-3.2.10-2.el6
>>> findutils: findutils-4.4.2-8.el6 ->  findutils-4.4.2-6.el6
>>> freeipmi: freeipmi-1.2.1-7.el6 ->  freeipmi-1.2.1-6.el6_5
>>> gedit: gedit-2.28.4-4.el6 ->  gedit-2.28.4-3.el6
>>> ibus: ibus-1.3.4-9.el6 ->  ibus-1.3.4-8.el6
>>> libcanberra: libcanberra-0.22-3.el6 ->  libcanberra-0.22-1.el6.centos
>>> libipathverbs: libipathverbs-1.3-3.el6_5 ->  libipathverbs-1.3-3.el6
>>> logwatch: logwatch-7.3.6-54.el6 ->  logwatch-7.3.6-52.el6
>>> pango: pango-1.28.1-11.el6 ->  pango-1.28.1-10.el6
>>> paps: paps-0.6.8-13.el6.3 ->  paps-0.6.8-13.el6.2
>>> passwd: passwd-0.77-7.el6 ->  passwd-0.77-4.el6_2.2
>>> perl-LDAP: perl-LDAP-0.40-2.el6 ->  perl-LDAP-0.40-1.el6
>>> pulseaudio: pulseaudio-0.9.21-24.el6 ->  pulseaudio-0.9.21-21.el6
>>> unzip: unzip-6.0-4.el6 ->  unzip-6.0-2.el6_6
>>> urw-fonts: urw-fonts-2.4-11.el6 ->  urw-fonts-2.4-10.el6
>>> watchdog: watchdog-5.6-5.el6 ->  watchdog-5.6-4.el6_6
>>> wget: wget-1.12-8.el6 ->  wget-1.12-5.el6_6.1
>>>
>> I am pretty sure that those are all 6.7 fasttrack updates:
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6.7/fasttrack/x86_64/Packages/
>>
>> sources:
>>
>> http://vault.centos.org/6.7/fasttrack/Source/SPackages/
> 
> Thanks Johnny, you are right.
> I was not aware of such a thing as fastrack.
> 

https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-April/msg00003.html

They are optional channels from RHN, we also maintain them as an
optional repo.

As you can see, every channel/version of RHEL has one:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/active/

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes



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