RedHat

The StAB cluster subscribes to Red Hat, and uses version 6, which is one behind the latest version, version 7.

Being one version behind is typicaly not a problem, as it continues to be fully supported. However, there are software packages that like to use the bleeding edge, and there are admitted problems installing these programs.

Problems

outdated repomd.xml warnings

You can get rid of them (i.e. update the repomd.xml) by:

yum clean all
yum update yum*