Purpose of the 7Server repo?
I've been searching, but can't seem to find a definitive answer to this question: What is the purpose of the 7Server repo? What makes them different than the numbered repos such as 7.0 and 7.1?
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Subscription to the '7Server' provides all the latest available RPMs released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as that minor version upgrades. are released. So any RHEL instance with such a subscription gets the RHEL 7.1 packages when that version is released, then RHEL 7.2 packages when that version is released, and so on.
Subscription to a numbered repository, such as '7.1' or '7.2' restricts packages to the set released for that major and minor version. For example, if a system is subscribed to a "7.1" repository and RHEL 7.2 is released, the system will not receive packages updated for RHEL 7.2.
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