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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/23/2017 08:30 AM, Roger Price
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:alpine.LSU.2.11.1706230721120.3693@maria">On Thu, 22 Jun
2017, Ambrogio Coletti wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hello
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I am not a linux expert.
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The output of uname -r on my system returns:
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2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64
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Hi, Linux 2.6.32 was released 3 December, 2009. That's nearly 8
years ago. Linux has now reeched version 4.11.
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What blank affirmations like this one fail to take into
consideration is that RH invests a lot of time and effort in
backports. The current kernel used by RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 resembles
more the 3.10 series than 2.6<br>
Please see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/">https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/</a>
for information on backporting of security fixes<b> and features</b>
in CentOS and RHEL<br>
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cite="mid:alpine.LSU.2.11.1706230721120.3693@maria">
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<blockquote type="cite">hence I am trying to install this rpm:
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sudo yum install nut-2.7.4-9.fc27.x86_64.rpm
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but I got failed dependencies.
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Is there a repository I am supposed to set up to get those
dependencies from?
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Perhaps the CentOS people could advise you on whether old rpms for
CentOS still exist,</blockquote>
I already did that ( incidentally I am also member in some CentOS
teams ). As I have mentioned earlier, there are new packages as
well. And I have also built packages from the current git tree.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:alpine.LSU.2.11.1706230721120.3693@maria"> but the
general advice would be to install a more recent Linux.
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I would not use "general" and "more recent" without looking at the
whole context but yes, this is one of the option that can be
sometimes be taken into consideration. However let's not forget that
RHEL 6 ( and by matter of consequence CentOS 6 ) still has almost 4
more years of supported life ( a period which by itself exceeds the
length of life of other distributions.. ), given that it will go EOL
30 Nov, 2020 . See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata</a> for more
details about the lifecycle of RHEL distributions.<br>
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<br>
wolfy<br>
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