Centos – How to stick with one version on CentOS 7 via yum update

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Whenever I am doing yum update, I get automatically upgraded to the latest version.
I need to stick with one version of CentOS (i.e 7.3).

Also tried on yum --releasever=7.3 update and I am getting below error but able to do yum update.

[root@myvm ~]# yum --releasever=7.3 update

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager

 One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
 and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
 safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

     3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
            yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...

     4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
        will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
        again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

            yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
        or
            subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>

     5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
        compromise:

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7.3/x86_64

Best Answer

Edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to point to vault.centos.org.

In each enabled repository section change the baseurl, for example to:

baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/7.3.1611/os/$basearch 

baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/7.3.1611/updates/$basearch

and comment out, or simply remove, the mirrorlist directive in each stanza in which you alter the baseurl.

This works similarly for the extras, centosplus and fasttrack repositories.

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