On Thursday 10 May 2012 03.58.17 Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 05/10/2012 01:46 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote: > > On Thursday 10 May 2012 17.36.07 Gregory Machin wrote: > >> Hi. > >> At the moment it seems my machines just update to the latest current > >> release . I install a 6.0 machine and run yum update , and next thing > >> its 6.2 . > >> > >> I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even > >> numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. But > >> will allow updates within a given release. > > > > There is no provided functionality to do this, that is, CentOS doesn't > > differentiate between what you call updates and upgrades. > > I want to point out that neither does Red Hat. > > If you are on the RHEL 6 channel and if you run an update after you > install RHEL 6.0, you will be at RHEL 6.2. > > 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 are really only point in time freezes of installation > media. They are not separate entities or versions. To be fair that's not entierly true. At those points in time updates are more numerous and higher impact (new kernel -131 -> -220 last time, driver updates, some new tech. etc.). /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120510/26b288ed/attachment-0005.sig>