[quagga-users 14555] Re: Quagga in centos7 repo old version

On 2016-11-25 00:26:54 +0000, Damien Burke wrote:
> Just wondering why 0.99 is the version in the centos7 repo, when 1.1* is the
> latest?

Because RHEL 7 was released in 2014, when 0.99.something was the latest
version. CentOS is just repackaged RHEL.

Policy for most Linux distributions (certainly for an "Enterprise"
distribution like RHEL, which is supported for 10 years) is to backport
critical bug-fixes (including security-fixes) but not to upgrade to a
newer version.

If you want frequent updates, use a distribution with a more aggressive
update schedule. The closest to RHEL/Centos would probably be Fedora,
which has a release cycle of about 9 months, IIRC. I like Debian, which
has a release cycle of about 2 years for the stable distribution but
usually has newer versions of many packages in backports (which is safe
to mix) and (almost) always in testing (which may not always be safe). 


> Are there any yum repos with the latest versions?

I don't know. Unfortunately, RPMforge passed away several years ago.

        hp


-- 
   _  | Peter J. Holzer           | I think we need two definitions:
|_|_) | WSR - Softwaredevelopment | 1) The problem the *users* want us to solve
| |   | und Projektunterstützung  | 2) The problem our solution addresses.
__/   | [email protected]             |    -- Phillip Hallam-Baker on spam

_______________________________________________
Quagga-users mailing list
Quagga-users-UOy77sIEA+cAd7ICUelF/[email protected]
https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-users

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iD8DBQFYOBdtMdFfQa64PCwRAmubAKCcvMLJ/PH1Uer/lZ2RSGrabnOB2gCfWSZW
eBN1TzGF0V2JEwuRA1RkZMc=
=8no8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----