Re: Freeze Break request: RHEL 6.6

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

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