On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/05/2014 06:36 PM, Michael Coffman wrote:
> > Not sure what your environment looks like but the systems I manage are
> > locked down and it's typically difficult to get them changed. We have
> > hundreds of systems ( desktop, server and HPC systems) that are all the
> > same rev with all the same packages. A large number of vendor packages
> > and internally developed packages have to be re-qualified everytime
> > anything is changed. So we don't change them often.
> >
> Scientific Linux will allow you to stay at a particular update rev (6.0
> if you had that requirement, even) but still get security updates. So
> you might consider installing the gnutls update from the SL 6.4 updates
> instead, or rebasing to SL completely.
>
> This is one of the few really significant differences between SL and
> CentOS; the SL user base wants to be able to get security updates
> without a complete 'point release' update, too, and have put forth the
> nontrivial effort required to actually make that happen.
>
> I'm using CentOS myself, but if you need that particular feature of SL
> it may be the better choice for you.
>
Thanks. This info was very helpful.
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