similar to: CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

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.

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

Hi, IT seems, centos6.3 does no longer get any updates esp security fixes as per readme here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.3/readme Is there updated source RPMs that can be rebuilt and hand patched, for example, nss-util 3.21.0-2 or openssl 1.0.1e that can be safely used on CentOS 6.3? Any other options that you can shed some light on, highly appreciated for above examples. My apologies if

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

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 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

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 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

rpm -q glibc gives me: glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.6.x86_64 However I need glibc-2.15 If I do yum update glibc I get: No packages marked for Update Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sound stopped working on my CentOS 6.8 system several months ago. I've tried everything I can to find out what's wrong. It is not the hardware; if I boot into a live dvd of 6.8 (or any other OS), the sound works perfectly. So something must have changed in my configuration. I've compared files on my system and another CentOS 6.8 system with working sound and I haven't found

Dear all, I'm having trouble installing Centos 6.8, in a VM using VirtualBox, and hoping that someone on this distribution can help. I'm running VirtualBox Version 5.1.4 r110228 (Qt5.5.1). I downloaded .iso files for Centos 6.8: - CentOS-6.8-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso - CentOS-6.8-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso I proceeded to set up a new VM, selecting Linux / RedHat 64 bit. I selected the DVD1 iso

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On Sunday 21 August 2016 13:50:25 Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:39:29 -0700 > > j_post wrote: > > Sound stopped working on my CentOS 6.8 system several months ago. > > alsamixer may tell you something useful. > When I select HDA Intel PCH, which is what it should be using, everything looks normal with one possible exception. There are three volume sliders

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:56:27 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Doesn't anyone have a list of the oldest > kernel version for each Centos version you could be running and still > avoid known problems? The best answer to your question is "the latest version", since previous versions all have known issues of one kind or another. It's not a great idea to run outdated Centos