Sigh. As I said, I edited the repo to point DIRECTLY to 6.9 and got the
same result. Care to explain that with some other policy? Even then,
DOWNLOADING the RPM still will not install. Is there a policy for that
too?
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On to, 14 syys 2017, Mark Haney via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Well this is interesting. The latest version of sudo
> is sudo-1.8.6p3-29.el6_9.x86_64. Mine is sudo-1.8.6-7.el6.x86_64. The
> issue here is that this box is CentOS 6.4 and I can't fully update it to
> 6.9. But I can't simply update sudo by itself:
>
> [root@secure nnsops]# yum update sudo
> Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror
> Setting up Update Process
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * base:
mirror.cogentco.com
> * epel:
mirror.nodesdirect.com
> * extras:
mirror.team-cymru.org
> * updates:
centos.vwtonline.net
> No Packages marked for Update
>
> That's a good call on checking it, but I don't understand why I can't
> simply yum update sudo. I can download the package and update it, but I'm
> at a loss as to why I'm not seeing it even when I run just 'yum update'.
I
> swear, I just don't understand how these systems were left not updated for
> years. This box is currently 6.4.
>
This is CentOS. See CentOS updates policy:
https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/Ge
neral#head-dcca41e9a3d5ac4c6d900a991990fd11930867d6
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