CentOS - Oct 2017 - openssh-5.3p1-123.el6_9.x86_64.rpm for CESA-2017:2563 not available in mirror.centos.org centos6 repo

Thanks for the quick and helpful replies.  Also, thank you for pointing out that
I should have been looking in updates, not os. That makes perfect sense, but I
got hung up on the fact that it was missing from os. Anyway, that led to me
discovering that on one of my internal mirrors the updates repo hadn?t synced in
a couple months, which was ultimately the cause for the missing package in that
environment, but still as Johnny pointed out this package was released August
31st and should be in the os repo by now, 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.


# This is the openssh package I see at the URL I gave above
openssh-5.3p1-122.el6.x86_64.rpm
<http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/Packages/openssh-5.3p1-122.el6.x86_64.rpm>
23-Mar-2017 14:58 	277K

Thanks
Dustin



> On Oct 21, 2017, at 6:54 AM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at
kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, October 20, 2017 5:24 pm, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 10/20/2017 05:20 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 10/20/2017 12:53 PM, Dustin McNabb wrote:
>>>> The patch for CESA-2017:2563 announced at
>>>>
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-August/022529.html
>>>> is only available in the centos 6.9 repo. It is missing for the
generic
>>>> centos-6 repo at
>>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6/os/x86_64/Packages/.
>>>> Typically this repo contains all the latest patches for the
latest
>>>> minor
>>>> release, but it's missing the new version of openssh. I
assume this is
>>>> by
>>>> mistake, but please correct me if I am wrong.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> centos-6/6/ is a symlink to centos/6/
>>> 
>>> which is inturn a symlink to the latest directory .. in this case
6.9/
>>> 
>>> So, you will get the same package from each location
>>> 
>>> But, during the update sync out cycle, some servers have updates
while
>>> others are still syncing, so it sometimes takes a couple of hours
for
>>> everything to settle out.
>>> 
>>> Both of those directories will have the same content when they are
>>> synced.
>>> 
>>> I did just release 30ish SRPM builds today, so it will take a few
hours
>>> for everything to stabilize.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> However, that package was released a long time ago (31 aug) and it IS
in
>> both places right now.  So no idea why you only see it in one place.
> 
> The OP looks in wrong place, the package is in updates, not os.
> 
> In general, the rule of thumb is to look in updates firs, then in os, then
> one will find the latest package.
> 
> Valeri
> 
>> 
>> For the things released TODAY .. they may take a couple hours to get
out.
>> 
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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

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
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