[CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Dec 12 13:22:10 UTC 2007


Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 12/12/2007, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>> Amos Shapira wrote:
>>> Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust
>>> around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays).
>> ok, so what do you mean by sticking to 5.0 ? you mean you dont want any
>> updates at all for those machines, even if they might be security issues ?
> 
> (I also replied to David's message)
> 
> No. I'm trying to understand where does 5.0 stand now that 5.1 is out
> - should I abandon 5.0 and upgrade to 5.1 if I want to stick to
> secure, stable releases or is 5.0 going to be maintained in parallel
> to 5.0 for security issues?

I think your confusion comes from the fact that you consider 5.1 to be a 
  new release, and not what it really is : 5.0 + updates + some bug fix's.

I suggest you read up on how the whole EL codebase moves.

> I now noticed the last sentence saying "you are in the update release
> stream for the 5.1 series and you will not move to a newer release
> without making changes to the yum config.". What kind of changes does
> this refer to? Overriding the $releasever in the repository URL's to
> hard-coded "5.0" or what?

no, when branches are created - they will involve you installing a new 
centos-release rpm.

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