[CentOS] Want to _prevent_ upgrade to centos 5.2
Alex White
ethericalzen at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 06:06:58 UTC 2008
Ben Marsh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the release of 5.2 "yum update" seems to be upgrading our
> computers from CentOS 5.1 to CentOS 5.2. I note from release notes for
> 5.2 that you are only supposed to get 5.2 if you type in "yum upgrade".
> On two seperate machines entering "yum update" has resulted in yum
> geting repo information for packages with versions that only exist in
> the base repository of centos 5.2.
<snipped>
yum update will update your machine to the most current packages
just like yum upgrade unless you've modified your /etc/yum.conf to
remove obsoletes=1.
Per the man page yum update with obsoletes enabled is the same as
yum upgrade. I believe that if you want to remain at 5.1 you'll have
to stop updating. It is expected that running yum update will bring
you forward to 5.2.
> Can I stop this from happening? Ideally I would like to stay on a
> particulare version of CentOS eg 5.2 until we can do a controlled
> upgrade. Maybe we have the same problem as having stable specified in a
> debian sources.list where what is meant by stable changes when a new
> version of debian is released.
<snipped yum output>
You're going to be missing security updates. This has been discussed
here before. The minor number could be compared to a service pack
from the Windows world. Depending on one's environment, one may not
want to necessarily throw the latest service packs into production
right away either.
HTH
Alex White
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