Hi, has the end of life and yum update process changed for Centos? I want to stick with a release, but receive security updates to maintain stability on my critical servers. Last year I remember the plan being that if you picked 3.1, 3.3 or 3.4 you could stick with it and automatically receive yum updates without changing anything. Then when 3.4 came out the Centos readme said if you were on 3.3 you would automatically be updated to 3.4 through yum. That never happened and I remember reading some where here it would not. Which was fine by me since I assume that was due to sticking to the original plan. But now it seems I have a 3.3-1 server that all of sudden looks like it wants to update to 3.4. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:19 -0700, Michael Rock wrote:> Hi, has the end of life and yum update process changed > for Centos? I want to stick with a release, but > receive security updates to maintain stability on my > critical servers. > > Last year I remember the plan being that if you picked > 3.1, 3.3 or 3.4 you could stick with it and > automatically receive yum updates without changing > anything. > > Then when 3.4 came out the Centos readme said if you > were on 3.3 you would automatically be updated to 3.4 > through yum. That never happened and I remember > reading some where here it would not. Which was fine > by me since I assume that was due to sticking to the > original plan. > > But now it seems I have a 3.3-1 server that all of > sudden looks like it wants to update to 3.4.Centos-3 is the distro When RHEL puts out a quarterly update (ie update 4) we call it version 3.4. So 3.3 will go to 3.4 and to 3.5 and so on. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050421/6f8530be/attachment-0001.sig>
Hi, I was getting security updates from yum centos mirrors regularly on the 3.3-1 servers and checked the Centos errata. So I assumed the default unchanged centos yum.conf was giving me everything I needed. Now it seems yum will jump me from 3.3-1 to 3.4. Does this all sound about right? (I figured after seeing this I must be doing something wrong or the process changed somewhere. I do not remember seeing an announcement other than the one back in January but later someone mentioned the automatic update to 3.4 would not happen). Thx -- Mike --- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:> Centos-3 is the distro > > When RHEL puts out a quarterly update (ie update 4) > we call it version > 3.4. > > So 3.3 will go to 3.4 and to 3.5 and so on. > > >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
I went ahead with the yum update, now 'rpm -q centos-release' shows: centos-release-3.3-1 centos-release-3-4.2 I had walked away from a vnc session as it was yum updating and came back to a closed vnc sessions. So I thought maybe it did not finish. However a server reboot and a subsequent 'yum clean' and 'yum update' did not yield any new additions. So it looks like it got everything but not sure if it should show both versions in 'rpm -q centos-release'? thx again -- Mike --- Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote:> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:14:07PM -0700, Michael > Rock enlightened us: > > I was getting security updates from yum centos > > mirrors regularly on the 3.3-1 servers and checked > the > > Centos errata. So I assumed the default unchanged > > centos yum.conf was giving me everything I needed. > Now > > it seems yum will jump me from 3.3-1 to 3.4. > > > > Does this all sound about right? > > > > (I figured after seeing this I must be doing > something > > wrong or the process changed somewhere. I do not > > remember seeing an announcement other than the one > > back in January but later someone mentioned the > > automatic update to 3.4 would not happen). > > > > If my memory serves me, there was a problem with > bind breaking during an > upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4, so until the problem was > fixed (within the last > week or two), both the 3.3 and 3.4 trees were > maintained separately. Now > that the problem has been resolved, the maintainers > have combined it all > back into a single tree. > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
It was supposed to update from 3.3 automatically to 3.4 originally. But a lot of people faced problems with the Bind update removing all their zone info from named.conf. As such it was stopped. But I believe that issue has finally been fixed. So the auto update is now allowed to proceed. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Rock Sent: 22 April 2005 03:20 To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos EOL changes Hi, has the end of life and yum update process changed for Centos? I want to stick with a release, but receive security updates to maintain stability on my critical servers. Last year I remember the plan being that if you picked 3.1, 3.3 or 3.4 you could stick with it and automatically receive yum updates without changing anything. Then when 3.4 came out the Centos readme said if you were on 3.3 you would automatically be updated to 3.4 through yum. That never happened and I remember reading some where here it would not. Which was fine by me since I assume that was due to sticking to the original plan. But now it seems I have a 3.3-1 server that all of sudden looks like it wants to update to 3.4. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos