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Indication of when a minor rev level will increase after an OS patch

The question came up asking how a person would know if a minor rev level of a OS patch for Redhat would be known ahead of a patch. As an example, if a server is at RHEL 6.6 what would indicate that after a yum update was done the OS would be RHEL 6.7? Is there a package that would indicate if the minor version number would bump up?

Thanks, Greg

Solution

  • This may be better asked on SuperUser but yes you should have a package called redhat-release or in my case centos-release which gives the current version information.

    rpm -q centos-release returns centos-release-6-8.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64