Hello Yigal,
Yigal Korman [2019-02-06 8:32 +0200]:
Anyone knows why RHEL 7.6 provides v173.1 while CentOS has a newer v176? Usually packages have the same version on both...
They do, but you have to consider Base vs. Extras. Both RHEL 7.6 and CentOS 7.3 have Cockpit 173 in base
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/
and some cockpit-* version 176 in Extras:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/
It's a bit confusing as e. g. cockpit-bridge 176 isn't supposed to be there -- that's a Base package. Apparently CentOS publishes all built packages from 176 without filtering them out the way RHEL 7 does.
This is fixed in RHEL 8, as the packages are not built on the srpm level, instead of relying on post-build compose filters.
Martin