On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Tim Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > Googling for more on 'extended update support' I found: > > http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1343202,00.html > "Customers with a need for EUS are likely larger enterprise customers, > Riveros said, usually with 100 or more RHEL enterprise subscriptions. > EUS costs $60,000 per year for up to 100 servers, $80,000 per year for > up to 500 servers, and $120,000 for up to 1,000 servers." > > This doesn't really fit us or our use of RHEL. There's no way to do this > by just changing some yum settings?
Not really since the updates produced for EUS aren't available in the normal channels. You can lock onto an update level via a cloned channel or local yum repo that you manage but once the next update level is released you will just stop getting security updates for what you have installed. You didn't really explain why you want to stay on a particular update level. Unless it is required for 3rd party support of some other software I don't think there is anything magical about a particular update level. The base channels are more properly thought of as just RHEL5, the update levels are largely arbitrary. It isn't cheap to maintain security on old versions of packages that few have a need to be tied to and the cost of EUS reflects that. John _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
