[CentOS] 4.1 being dropped from mirrors

Lance Davis lance at uklinux.net
Wed Oct 19 17:06:41 UTC 2005


On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 October 2005 13:00, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> > Does this mean if Red Hat comes out with more updates for RHEL 4.1
> > you will not apply them to Centos 4.1 anny more?
> 
> Bruce, there is no such thing as RHEL 4.1.  There is a RHEL4, update set 1 (a 
> snapshot of updates, released quarterly).  But RHEL 4.1 does not exist.  Nor 
> does RHEL 4.2, for that matter.  Nor will they ever exist; the next version 
> of RHEL will likely be version 5 (there is no .0 there, either).
> 
> Read "CentOS 4.2" as "CentOS 4, quarterly update rollup 2".  I believe the use 
> of a minor version number is a mistake for this reason, but that is the way 
> CentOS does it.
> 

maybe we should change it next time to 4u3 raher than 4.3 :)

Regards
Lance

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