[CentOS] Looks like 3.8 is not ready to download

Fri Aug 25 02:26:29 UTC 2006
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:21 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:40 +0000, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> > This is just a heads up that 3.8 does not look ready to download.  
> > There are 3.8 files at the CentOS mirrors, but the files (including the
> > iso images) are constantly changing or disappearing.  It looks like
> > the hard-working diligent CentOS workers are making some last minute
> > changes before getting CentOS 3.8 out the door.  I presume that
> > there will be a posting made to this list when 3.8 is ready--I hope
> > this doesn't end up like 3.6, when the files are uploaded but not a
> > peep on the mailing list nor webpage that a new 3.x release of CentOS
> > has been made.
> > 
> > I know most people are probably using 4.x, but I prefer 3.x because I know
> > the software on this release is guaranteed to be present in any more
> > modern Linux distro (maybe as an updated version); CentOS 3.x is the
> > oldest codebase being currently maintained for any free Linux
> > distro.
> > 
> > - Sam
> 
> Sam ... we will announce when it is ready :)
> 
> You mean this for 3.6 (pretty sneaky how we hide that stuff in the
> announce list :) :
> 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-November/012349.html
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> For a reason why things are changing ... look here:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2006-August/msg00072.html
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202446
> 
> There is no working rescue mode on the upstream el3u8 right now ...
> there will be one on CentOS-3.8 before we release.  Hopefully someone
> appreciates the effort we take in testing our releases and not just
> rubber stamping it out the door like some of the other rebuild projects.
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totally appreciated - thanks

Craig