6.5 When, If Now Where? And a Few More Qs

[Larry]

I got a 6.4 server ready to ship out for colocation. If 6.5 is just around the corner I would rather hang on to it to upgrade it here rather than remotely.

a) what is the rough zone (week, month) we can expected to see a Yum Update showing 6.5?
b) Can I update to 6.5 using CR today, and that when 6.5 is officially out it will just update changes since today?
c) How do I update via CR?

Each new version brings in new features, which I don't need. It seems that every year / few months new daemons are running, new pacakges installed ... I just want an O/S stripped to the bone running the bare essentials.

So what new features are in 6.5 that I *don't* need and that I can safely remove? e.g. KVM

Just an example. When I installed this 6.4 a few weeks ago I use a server install, update it, then remove all the not needed stuff. CUPS, Multimedia, X, Samba, NFS .... so on.

[TrevorH]

Read the threads in the new "CentOS QA" forum for status updates.

[Larry]

Hmm, that's what I did first.

None of the threads in QA answered my questions specifically and one of the threads does say to post questions here in the Social section.

[gulikoza]

QA indicates that CR packages might be already available today
Make sure you have http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResour ... itories/CR installed and enabled.

As far as your second question, we don't know what you need. KVM is not a new feature for example and is, for me, an essential server package. Some of us carefully read release and tech notes and examine each package when doing yum update to see what additional software is installed. Instead of doing server install, try to do a minimal install and add required packages from there...

[TrevorH]

Official information will be posted to the QA Forum, any guesses you see here in Social will be... guesses