My apologies for the misunderstanding. I get it now. Thanks again for the help. Dustin > On Oct 21, 2017, at 7:15 PM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: > >> On 22/10/17 04:41, Dustin McNabb wrote: >> as Johnny pointed out > > All that Johnny pointed out was that 6 is a link to 6.9 and should > therefore have the same content. He never said anything about os having > the latest release of the package, he simply said that 6 should (and it > does, in updates). > >> this package was >> released August 31st and should be in the os repo by now, > > 6.9 (which 6 links to) was released by Red Hat in March and no further > updates are made to os after that. All updated packages after the > release date go in updates. > >> and it’s >> not. Also, I was wrong since it’s missing from both the 6.9 and 6 os >> repo. I just checked again from a browser that has never been to this >> url so there’s no chance of something being cached and still I see >> the 122 package at >> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/Packages/. Ultimately, >> you helped me solve my problem, but the package is not in os >> directory yet like Johnny said it normally would be. > You are mistaken both about what Johnny said and what the os and updates > repos are for. The os repo contains those packages that were released > at the time of a point release. In the case of 6.9 the release date by > Red Hat was 2017-03-21 and the packages in os are generally current as > of that date. Updates contains updated packages that have been released > since the most recent point release. By default and generally yum will > be configured for both repos, and so any update or install will pull the > most recent package from either os or updates. In the case where there > was not any updated package since the point release the most recent > package will be in os, otherwise it will be in updates. > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos