The even number is merely selected as a reference point, nothing to do with stable or unstable . I'm aiming to create a controlled environment where there is less that users can do to break their systems ... On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: > On 05/10/2012 08:55 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 05/09/12 10:36 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >>> 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. >> >> thats a rather strange requirement. 6.1 is 6.0 with updates rolled up. >> >> a more sane requirement would be to only allow pre-tested updates, which >> you'd do by testing the updates on a staging machine, then posting them >> to your own internal yum repository which your production machines would >> update from. >> > > This requirement sounds suspiciously like it was made for software that > uses the "even numer = stable release, odd number = development release" > versioning method. Since that doesn't apply here the requirement doesn't > make sense. > > Regards, > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos