[CentOS] microcode_ctl-2.1-16 hard crash on Intel E5 2667 v4 CPUs

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Locane wrote:

> My questions are, who decides what packages are current for CentOS 
> when I "yum upgrade"?

That's determined by the repositories defined and enabled in 
/etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo. To see the repositories 
enabled by your system, ask yum:

yum repolist

Each repository maintains a different set of packages. For any given 
package, order is determined by

epoch > version > release

To see those values for the packages installed on your system:

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t\t%{epoch}\t%{version}\t%{release}\n' | sort


Epoch is essentially a hack that can override a change in a package's 
version numbering. Most packages don't have an epoch number, but check 
out the epochs on bind-libs and (32!) and dhclient (12).


So for each package name, the package with the highest 
epoch:version:release is "current." That allows a package in the 
updates repository to be installed over one currently installed on 
your system.

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/