For the immediate future, we plan to continue with SL 7. When EL 8
emerges, we may need to re-evaluate the situation. That being stated,
for non-CERN groups (that is, groups neither employed by CERN nor in one
of the collider collaborations), is there a CERN equivalent to this SL list?
What "services" does [email protected] provide? I understand that
for CERN groups, the service presumably is close to what RH provides to
contract for-fee customers, with the proviso that the CS persons with
CERN groups know what they are doing. What is available to non-CERN
groups/persons? If this is information that is not relevant to the
entire SL list, a private email would be appreciated.
On 01/13/2016 09:24 PM, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
If you use CERN CentOS 7 - please contact us at [email protected]
in case you encounter problems, if you use CentOS 7 - please use centos
mailing lists...
Now CERN Linux el7 comes in and I see the machines installed as 7.1
stay there,
no automatic update to 7.2. Odd.
Then here, I see same with CentOS7 - no automatic updates by default,
no automatic
updates to latest point release, 7.1 machines stay at 7.1. (I do not
have any SL7 to compare)
So I am puzzled by all this. Maybe I should ask google: "is centos7
supposed to self update to latest point release?"
In both cases you should get automatic updates to latest release
(while using default yum repository definitions), if this is not the
case: please report the problem.
Then I takes quite a bit of work to get automatic updates to work at
all on CentOS7
(CERN el7 seems to be okey):
a) The yum.cron package is crazy - each time I need to use yum, I
have to wait
until it finishes some useless background tasks. Then "yum remove
yum.cron" has
no effect because all the cron jobs are part of the main yum package.
Go figure.
b) the CERN yum-autoupdate package, which we use for SL6 updates,
depends
on a yum plugin not available anywhere (except from a CERN repo) and
then actually
does not work out of the box because of strange interaction with
systemd - only works after a reboot.
bb) then it does not send any email about updates - the el6
yum-autoupdate did this,
where did this function go?!?
again: if you encounter such problem(s) - please report.
(Hmm... maybe I should try these auto update scripts from the SL7
repository?)
So as they say, 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
... I think this discussion went totally off-topic for the SL mailing
list ..
Best Regards
Jarek
