[CentOS] gnutls bug

[Cliff Pratt]

I have some sympathy for Michael. There are organisations which are so
paranoid that they will not allow updates between eg 6.4 and 6.5, either
because they insist on rigorous (ie lengthy and time consuming) regression
testing of applications or because a third party package vendor specifies a
particular level of OS for their product (I can think of at least two).

Who has not been caught in the "not supported here" trap? You install a
package from the OS supplier, and have an issue with it. You go to the
forum for the package and get the response "upgrade to the latest release",
but the OS supplier will not support the OS if you upgrade the package to
the latest release!

Cheers,

Cliff

Cheers,

Cliff


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:12:49PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Michael Coffman
> > > updated.  I did not realize that once the OS was vaulted, there were no
> > > more updates.   Now I know so thanks...
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
>
> rgds
> Stephen
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