On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On 03/05/2014 06:36 PM, Michael Coffman wrote: > > Not sure what your environment looks like but the systems I manage are > > locked down and it's typically difficult to get them changed. We have > > hundreds of systems ( desktop, server and HPC systems) that are all the > > same rev with all the same packages. A large number of vendor packages > > and internally developed packages have to be re-qualified everytime > > anything is changed. So we don't change them often. > > > Scientific Linux will allow you to stay at a particular update rev (6.0 > if you had that requirement, even) but still get security updates. So > you might consider installing the gnutls update from the SL 6.4 updates > instead, or rebasing to SL completely. > > This is one of the few really significant differences between SL and > CentOS; the SL user base wants to be able to get security updates > without a complete 'point release' update, too, and have put forth the > nontrivial effort required to actually make that happen. > > I'm using CentOS myself, but if you need that particular feature of SL > it may be the better choice for you. > Thanks. This info was very helpful. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -MichaelC