Freeze Break request: RHEL 6.6

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Tue Oct 14 17:05:55 UTC 2014


On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:00:59AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> In some kind of unfortunate timing, we went into freeze this morning
> and also RHEL 6.6 was released. :) So, I would like to ask for a little
> freeze break. ;) 
> 
> I'd like to apply the update to all our RHEL6 machines and reboot those
> that can be easily rebooted without an outage. 
> 
> Reasoning: 
> 
> * I would really very much like to update openssh on lockbox01 so we
>   can use control-persist and pipelining. It should make ansible runs a
>   great deal faster. 
> 
> * I would like us to be up to date in the event a serious security
>   vulnerability arrives. So, we just need to apply the update instead
>   of applying all of rhel6.6 also. 
> 
> * I would --exclude=python-zmq as we have had troubles with the rhel6
>   version from epel. 
> 
> * We have typically had very little problem with minor release versions
>   of RHEL. Breakage for us has usually happened due to epel upgrades or
>   unrelated items. 
> 
> * It's the very start of our freeze, so we should be able to clean up
>   any problems resulting before it disrupts the beta cycle any. 
> 
> * I don't see any issues off hand that would affect us in the tech
>   notes for rhel 6.6. 
> 
> Thoughts? +1s?

I'm +1, we just started freeze and it's early in the week, so we should have
time to recover/manage if we have to.

Pierre
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