[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Fri Oct 21 13:43:58 UTC 2011
Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net>

On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
>>
>> OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of
>> systems.
>>
>> I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc...
>>
>> Am I receiving security updates via 'yum update', which as far as I can
>> tell hasn't installed any updates for quite a few months??
>>
>> If not, what do I need to do to get security updates?
>>
>> These are not production systems, but I don't want to break anything
>> unless it's broken already (i.e. security vulnerabilities and bug
>> fixes).
>
> You have two choices.
>
> 1)  Enable the CR repo.  This will let you update to packages that have
> been built for 6.1 as they become available.  It is possible that there
> might be a few minor issues with these packages as they have been built
> for 6.1, but they should be fine for the most part.
>
> 2) Leave things as they are and when 6.1 becomes available, your normal
> 'yum update' will update you to 6.1 all at once.  The downside here is
> that you have to wait until 6.1 is done before you get any more updates.
>
So Centos 6.0 is EOL?