On 3/24/11 7:33 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Manuel Wolfshant
Other team members already disclosed two of those, so is there a reason why not all of them are shared with the Scientific Linux team ?
There was no deep secret, just a matter of timming. It was not my answer to give, I wanted to be sure that Johny& Karanbir take the needed fixing steps first.
I just wanted to make a quick note that you/we are referring to the *Alpha* version of SL 5.6. At that stage of the game, chances are that they have not gone through all the testing. There are good reasons why it is Alpha. I'm not saying the "incompatibility" issue will definitely disappear in their Beta but this is just an observation most people seem to be overlooking.
Also note that you can't just 'yum update' from those SL alpha versions to the final release, so even if CentOS did ship alpha/beta versions it wouldn't make life that much easier. On the other hand it would be nice if yum knew enough to do that - or to understand different repositories and be able to always update from the same source or be told when to switch and reinstall.