similar to: CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

Hi, Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately, there's not possibility in this specific situation to be able to update from 6.3 -> 6.8. But, it would be nice to be able to update specific packages to latest that's available in 6.8 repo at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ For example, nss-util-3.21.0-2.el6.i686.rpm

The specs may have certain dependency on subset of 6.3 packages, but not for all other packages/binaries, as I mentioned earlier. So, to keep things rather intact, we would simply meet requirements by only updating "selected packages only". And, for now, that should be considered intermittent solution until we can safely land to a proper job as you mentioned. So, would there be any

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:12 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 11/7/2016 8:33 PM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > >> Unfortunately, there's not possibility in this specific situation to be >> able to update from 6.3 -> 6.8. >> > > any such external specifications that insist you run an old obsolete > operating system are inherently broken.

Thanks very much, understood. so, it seems, upgrading selected packages is probably going to be fine except where the compatibility matters where it would break all kinds of things. Something of such nature of request would need to be internally tested by simply updating the selected packages, test the applications previously running on 6.3 w/ these few selected 6.8 packages updates. It seems,

> > > > Show us this "no way to update system properly" to get a clear big picture > that is allowing us to provide you with potentially better solutions. > Thanks really Leon very much w/ a very resourceful info. esp release notes helps across minor versions. So, this is for a friend of mine, and I have been told that they will not currently consider updating their

Unfortunately, that's the constraint it seems hence, there's inquiry of other options. But, looks like, any el6 package should work as long as we meet the dependencies? Kindly thanks for many help. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:55 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 11/8/2016 6:27 AM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > >> Thanks really Leon very much w/ a very

Thanks Frank and all. Understood, but unfortunately, updating to latest version of CentOs 6 is not the option in this specific situation, in stead, we are taking a look into options of updating only hand picked packages on Centos 6.3 to latest. Any other guidance is welcome and appreciated. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > On Mon, 7

Yes you would break all kinds of things. In a nutshell folks are saying you are free to try but when it blows up...you better have a total backup to restore the entire box. Your first priority should be getting whatever is holding you back from proper system updates and security out of the way. On Nov 8, 2016 00:59, "Dipal Bhatt" <dipal.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote: > The specs

Am 08.11.2016 um 07:14 schrieb Dipal Bhatt <dipal.bhatt at gmail.com>: > Thanks very much, understood. so, it seems, upgrading selected packages is > probably going to be fine except where the compatibility matters where it > would break all kinds of things. Let me rephrase it, to be clear. Its NOT fine to update selected packages. Especially a mixture of 6.3 and 6.8 packages is

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 23:33:56 -0600 Dipal Bhatt wrote: > But, yes, there's > no way to update the 6.3 to 6.8 as I repeatedly mentioned which is the only > requirement/constraint. It occurs to me to ask what you consider to be version 6.3. If you update any of the rpms to the 6.8 version you are no longer running version 6.3. If the spec requires 6.3 and nothing else, then you will

On 11/7/2016 8:33 PM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Unfortunately, there's not possibility in this specific situation to be able to update from 6.3 -> 6.8. any such external specifications that insist you run an old obsolete operating system are inherently broken. I hope this server isn't connected to the internet, and isn't providing any services to untrusted users. any

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 22:33:22 -0600 Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Simply updating these packages on 6.3, would there be any issues w/o > updating rest of the packages from 6.3 to 6.8? I suppose you could try it and see what happens. That comes with a two-part warranty: If it breaks, you own both pieces. As you have been told earlier, the only way to update your system properly is to run this

On 11/8/2016 6:27 AM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Thanks really Leon very much w/ a very resourceful info. esp release notes > helps across minor versions. So, this is for a friend of mine, and I have > been told that they will not currently consider updating their userland > from 6.3 to 6.8 but only selected few packages. The picture seems to be > that their company runs a lot of apps

On 11/8/2016 9:28 AM, Dipal Bhatt wrote: > Unfortunately, that's the constraint it seems hence, there's inquiry of > other options. But, looks like, any el6 package should work as long as we > meet the dependencies? mixing current 6.8 packages with very old 6.3 packages and libraries is a recipe for problems. these combinations are simply untested. If you're

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/6/red-hat-enterprise-linux-63-globally-available "Developer Tools: In addition to OpenJDK6 support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the newly introduced OpenJDK7 allows customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 to develop and test with the latest version of open source Java. " Yet in the CentOS 6.3 release notes, the only mention about

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.3 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.3 are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3 - we recommend everyone looks through those once. CentOS-6.3 is based on the upstream release EL 6.3 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.3 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. Release Notes for 6.3 are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3 - we recommend everyone looks through those once. CentOS-6.3 is based on the upstream release EL 6.3 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to

Greeting I'm newbie to Squirrelmail and just installed Dovecot in CentOS6.3. When I try to login to the Squirrelmail, then I get the following error: ?auth: Info: passwd(myusername at myserver.com): unknown user my config file is as follow: # /usr/bin/doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3

[I don't normally monitor this list for issues - it's better to send bugs to the libguestfs mailing list] On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:07:23PM +0100, Paul Maunders wrote: > I've found an issue with virt-sparsify on Centos 6.3 with it's image > format detection. If I take a qcow2 image and attempt to sparsify it > with... > > virt-sparsify -v centos6.3-gold.img

centos6.3,libvirt 0.9.10. [root at ovirtdev private]# virsh -c qemu+tls://ovirtdev.localhost/system list 2013-04-22 03:37:09.362+0000: 9898: info : libvirt version: 0.9.10, package: 21.el6_3.8 (CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>, 2013-01-28-19:24:16, c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org) 2013-04-22 03:37:09.362+0000: 9898: warning : virNetClientIncomingEvent:1665 : Something went wrong during