[CentOS] gnutls bug

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
>>
>> No, what everyone has said is that there _are_ updates, and yum knows
>> how to get them, even selectively.
>
> More to the point, "6.4" and "6.5" are just markers in the sand for
> "CentOS 6".  6.5 is basically just a rebasing of the packages to make it
> easier to install; it's an accumulation of updates for 6.4 in an easy
> to digest form.
>
> If you stop thinking of "6.4" and "6.5" as different OS's but as the same
> OS but at different parts of their patch lifecycle then it becomes a lot
> simpler.

I think it is really just a quirk of centos package management where
to be kind to the repository mirror sites they rebase what the
repositories hold to be just the newest at each minor release (since
that is what a yum update will pull anyway).   That way the mirrors
don't have to hold all of the old/intermediate package versions that
are only kept in the vault repository.   It is pretty much irrelevant
to normal updates - you can update from any version to current, even
just with specific packages.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com