Packages older than the current version released today

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The following two packages released today:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0140 (autofs)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0148 (qemu-kvm)

have a version number older than the current one. Should we just ignore the latest "updates"?

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MM Red Hat Pro 555 points
26 January 2018 6:26 AM

Those are the latest package to be supported on RHEL7. The following ones are the Beta packages for upcoming RHEL 7.5, and it's not supported yet. It's provided from beta repository only.

  • autofs-5.0.7-79.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • qemu-kvm-1.5.3-150.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • qemu-kvm-1.5.3-152.el7.x86_64.rpm
Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
26 January 2018 8:26 AM

Let me make things clearer by using autofs as an example:

$ sudo yum list --showduplicates autofs
Installed Packages
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-70.el7_4.1                  @rhel-7-server-rpms
Available Packages
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-40.el7                      rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-48.el7                      rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-54.el7                      rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-56.el7                      rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-69.el7                      rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-70.el7_4                    rhel-7-server-rpms
autofs.x86_64                 1:5.0.7-70.el7_4.1                  rhel-7-server-rpms

The system has autofs 1:5.0.7-70.el7_4.1 (installed on 2017-12-01). The "update" released on 2018-01-25 provides 1:5.0.7-70.el7_4 that is one version earlier.

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