Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/30/2011 10:15 AM, Alan McKay wrote: >> I'd be hesitant to put an EOL product on my production machines as well. > > Let me rephrase that - I am hesitant to put ANY virtualization on > these production machines. Mainly because I am very new here and do > not know the environment very well ye

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
> I'd be hesitant to put an EOL product on my production machines as well. Let me rephrase that - I am hesitant to put ANY virtualization on these production machines. Mainly because I am very new here and do not know the environment very well yet. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen adver

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:44, Alan McKay wrote: > Normally I would have a VM for this sort of thing but I still do not > have a machine available for that and I'm hesitant to put VMWare > Server on one of my production machines.   I'm new here and have > already flagged that I need a box for VMs

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
Normally I would have a VM for this sort of thing but I still do not have a machine available for that and I'm hesitant to put VMWare Server on one of my production machines. I'm new here and have already flagged that I need a box for VMs - hoping to have something in place by this time next week

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:37, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/30/2011 10:31 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: >> On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. >>> >>> I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have >

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:28, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. > > I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have > version 4.3.29. > > Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3?  Or that this is > the latest versio

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay piše: > Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3? Or that this is > the latest version in the 5.x stream? It's the latest version of the 5.x stream. It looks like it was last changed in 5.5. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Comput

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/30/2011 10:31 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: > On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. >> >> I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have >> version 4.3.29. >> >> Is that telling me that this is the

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Fabien Archambault
On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. > > I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have > version 4.3.29. > > Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3? Or that this is > the latest version in the

[CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have version 4.3.29. Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3? Or that this is the latest version in the 5.x stream? If the former, then how do I find out what