Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-08 Thread Dipal Bhatt
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:10 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > 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 wo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-08 Thread Dipal Bhatt
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 >> f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-08 Thread Dipal Bhatt
> > > > 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,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
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.bh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The specs may have certain dependency on subset of 6.3 packages, but not &g

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
PM, Frank Cox <thea...@melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > 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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:12 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@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 sp

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Frank Cox <thea...@melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > 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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
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/

[CentOS] CentOS 6.3 packages updates options without upgrading.

2016-11-07 Thread Dipal Bhatt
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