[CentOS] Not getting updates?

[Fred Smith]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:46:20PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 3/27/2015 12:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> >On 3/27/2015 12:30 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> >>I have no excludes in yum.conf.  But I noticed something odd in the
> >>CentOS-Base.repo file.  The [updates] section didn't have an explicit
> >>'enabled=1' in it.  Though, when I added it in, it made no
> >>difference.  I
> >>have noticed that I do have some updated packages (like httpd) that are
> >>from February and appear to be the most recent based on the mirrors, but
> >>every mirror I hit I see no updated packages listed for this
> >>month.  Maybe
> >>there's just not been any and I'm overreacting.
> >
> >indeed, odd.  I just looked at my local mirror of a mirror, and
> >I'm not seeing anything in /7/ newer than Jan 20
> 
> oh.  is /7/  supposed to be a symlink to /7.0.1406/   or a separate
> directory ?  it appears my mirroring of the mirror may be broken if
> its supposed to be a symlink.
> 
> in /7.0.1406/, I'm seeing files up to Feb 22.

/7/ is a link to the latest release, which at this point in timeis 7.0.1406.
Once 7.1 is released, the 7 symlink will point to it.

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