On 10/21/2011 9:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > 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? Keep in mind that CentOS 6.0 is just a point-in-time view of CentOS 6. Unless you have very specific (and unusual) requirements, you should continue to upgrade to all of the CentOS 6.x releases. RHEL 6 (and thus CentOS 6) should be supported through Nov 2017. -- Bowie