On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 06:08:45PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/26/2017 06:00 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > My system is 7.2.1511. > > > > When I run "yum update", it wants to install about > > 900 packages total. Most are labeled just "el7". > > A few "el7_1" and a lot are "el7_3" or 7.3. > > None are 7.2. > > > > I'm not surprised when I see 50-100 packages needing > > an update. But 900? And none specific to the > > installed system? > > > > My last update, of 4 packages, was Dec 31, 2016. > > I first noted the current behavior about 10 days later > > and have been trying to figure out why such an unusual > > report. > > > > CentOS 7 is the release .. point releases (7.0.1406, 7.1.1503, 7.2.1511, > 7.3.1611), are 'point in time' snapshots of the CentOS 7 tree. > > CentOS has no mechanism to stay on 7.2.1511 when 7.3.1611 has been > released. 7.3 and 7.2 are really just CentOS-7 with updates. > > The update you are seeing is the CentOS-7 tree after we finished > releasing all the 7.3.1611 packages (and updates to 7.3.1611) > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 04:11:16PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > > yum update of any centos 7 system updates it to the latest centos 7, whihc > is currently 7.3. there's no such thing as 7.2 updates once 7.3 has come > out. the files that say 7.1 haven't been updated since 7.1, but are still > applicable to the latest. Thanks Johnny and John. And here I thought I had asked to upgrade to 7.2 a year ago. A 900 package update is a concern for a computer our home relies upon to be there daily. Thus my caution. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jon at jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)