[CentOS] yum adding 7.3 packages to 7.2 system
Jon LaBadie
jcu at labadie.us
Fri Jan 27 04:35:38 UTC 2017
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
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