Scott thanks ever so much for your response - yes that answers the question.
Thanks, M > On 20 Apr 2018, at 13:00, centos-virt-requ...@centos.org wrote: > > Send CentOS-virt mailing list submissions to > centos-virt@centos.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > centos-virt-requ...@centos.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > centos-virt-ow...@centos.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CentOS-virt digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Apparent discontinuity between advertised centos7 release > 1803_01 and content of centos-release file (mql) > 2. Re: Apparent discontinuity between advertised centos7 release > 1803_01 and content of centos-release file (Scott Dowdle) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:11:59 +0100 > From: mql <em...@ej73.com> > To: centos-virt@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS-virt] Apparent discontinuity between advertised > centos7 release 1803_01 and content of centos-release file > Message-ID: <a6effa5e-4c12-4d8c-8ed3-e64094153...@ej73.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Hello, > > I searched centos7 in the AWS marketplace for the at-time-of-writing-latest > centos7 image: > https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00O7WM7QW?qid=1524138193326&sr=0-1&ref_=srh_res_product_title > > I built a standard free tier t2.micro from this putative 1803_01 AMI. I see > from the docs, this is thus a March 2018 compilation. > When I get CLI, I get this: > > [centos@ip-172-31-27-32 etc]$ cat centos-release > CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) > > which suggests that the AMI I just launched was built on a version of centos > compiled from upstream sources in August 2017. > Does the release of centos7 on the marketplace sport a release version which > does not pertain to the machine's release? Unlike with releases published > outside AWS, the Centos <https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS> cloud page does > not specify version info as listed on AWS. > > Thanks v much IA, > > M > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20180419/55fb570c/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:56:06 -0600 (MDT) > From: Scott Dowdle <dow...@montanalinux.org> > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS > <centos-virt@centos.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Apparent discontinuity between advertised > centos7 release 1803_01 and content of centos-release file > Message-ID: > <26946237.4421.1524160566619.javamail.r...@montanalinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Greetings, > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hello, >> >> I searched centos7 in the AWS marketplace for the >> at-time-of-writing-latest centos7 image: >> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00O7WM7QW?qid=1524138193326&sr=0-1&ref_=srh_res_product_title >> >> I built a standard free tier t2.micro from this putative 1803_01 AMI. >> I see from the docs, this is thus a March 2018 compilation. >> When I get CLI, I get this: >> >> [centos@ip-172-31-27-32 etc]$ cat centos-release >> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) >> >> which suggests that the AMI I just launched was built on a version of >> centos compiled from upstream sources in August 2017. >> Does the release of centos7 on the marketplace sport a release >> version which does not pertain to the machine's release? Unlike with >> releases published outside AWS, the Centos cloud page does not >> specify version info as listed on AWS. >> >> Thanks v much IA, > > RHEL releases about every 6 months... and then CentOS lags behind a little > bit as a rebuilder. > > The most current release of CentOS is based on RHEL 7.4... and is dated > August 2017 (1708). RHEL 7.5 was released a week or so ago and CentOS is > frantically working on coming out with CentOS release based on it. When that > comes out, the latest release will be 1804 (or 1805, etc). > > That doesn't mean there aren't in-between release updates because there > are... but they don't re-number the whole release because of regular updates. > > CentOS has a lot of products that they produce and some of them may be > rebuilt and distributed more frequently (like CentOS Atomic Host or their > Vagrant image, etc)... but not the oldest, main product. > > Did that answer your question? > > TYL, > -- > Scott Dowdle > 704 Church Street > Belgrade, MT 59714 > (406)388-0827 [home] > (406)994-3931 [work] > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > ------------------------------ > > End of CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 128, Issue 1 > *******************************************
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