On 29-03-2013 14:59, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 02:54:58PM +0200, Andreas K. wrote:
>>
>> baseurl=ftp://yum.xx.xx.xx.xx/pub/linux/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>> Is there a way to force a 6.3 machine to remain at 6.3 until
>> a human being decides that is is time to do so?
>
> Change releasever to 6.3 for base and updates and any other repo that
> might
> refer to it.
thanks for replying.
I was hoping ot a more dynamic approach though since the number of
affected machines
is in excess of 150. For example simply changing the $releasever to 6.3
and then to 6.4
and then to 6.5 every time a new version come along is not practical.
Looking into the 'man yum.conf' I find that
$releasever This will be replaced with the value of the version of the
package
listed in distroverpkg. This defaults to the version of
‘redhat-release’ package.
distroverpkg The package used by yum to determine the "version" of
the
distribution. This can be any installed package. Default is
‘redhat-release’.
You can see what provides this manually by using: "yum whatprovides
redhat-release".
Doing
[root@cs6979 yum.repos.d]# yum whatprovides redhat-release
.................
centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64 : CentOS release file
Repo : CS-base
Matched from:
Other : redhat-release
centos-release-6-3.el6.centos.9.x86_64 : CentOS release file
Repo : installed
Matched from:
Other : Provides-match: redhat-release
So the installed package is version 6.3.
Am I overlooking/misinterpreting something?
Andreas
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