7.6 and 7.7 yum update question

[ron7000]

silly question...

• If I install CentOS 7.6 x86-64 from DVD, using CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso
• then after clean install simply do yum update
• will that automatically put me to CentOS 7.7 ?
• would the same be true for running RHEL ?

If one wanted to run version 7.6 and only 7.6 how might that be accomplished using yum update?

thanks.

[jlehtone]

Easy:
1. Disconnect the machine from network (to protect everybody)
2. Never run yum again

Oh, wait, you would have a "fresh" install from the 7.6 image lacking any updates that CenOS 7.6 did receive during its lifetime, not the 7.6 as it was on the day of 7.7's release. Then again, does that matter? Any 7.6 is 7.6?

CentOS has a vault server (behind slow network) of archived repositories. Once you update 'centos-release' to 7.7's version you will have repo definitions of 7.6's vault.


RHEL ... No idea whether they still sell 7.6's support contracts.

[TrevorH]

For CentOS, once 7.7 comes out, 7.6 is deprecated and receives no more updates.

If you want to stick on one point release and yet still receive security updates then you need to look at RHEL and their EUS program.