<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>This applies to 5.X as it stands, as 4.X. Once RH 5.4 hits the streets, then CentOS 5 users will be in the same boat. I would hope nobody feels they are getting beaten up about this. The intention is not to beat anybody up. Anyway, I am going to try *really* hard not to post on the matter again (I said that yesterday, but I am going to try *harder*) because I am just repeating myself now, which may come across as brow-beating.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CentOS
mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 3:41:24<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure<br></font><br>Joseph L. Casale wrote:<br>>> I didn't 'get' the security implications of the rebuild stuff til it was explained to me the other day.<br>> <br>> Share the knowledge:) Aside from the delay involved while the devs build rpm's<br>> from the srpm's, is there more to it?<br><br>It's been covered already. When RH does a point release, CentOS has to match <br>the full rebuild before any more security updates go out for some unavoidable <br>technical reasons. RH 4.8 <br><a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv4-announce/2009-May/msg00000.html" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv4-announce/2009-May/msg00000.html</a><br>still isn't matched in CentOS, so no security updates
in the 4.x line since May. <br> But, if you want to be up to date you probably shouldn't be running a 4.x <br>release anyway - so other than stating the facts I wouldn't want to beat anyone <br>up over this particular issue.<br><br>-- <br> Les Mikesell<br> <a ymailto="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com" href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:CentOS@centos.org" href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos" target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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