Alain Péan wrote:
Le 21/07/2011 14:45, Always Learning a écrit :
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others:
kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm
Thanks Rainer.
The dilemma is whether to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 or stay with 5.x as more 5.x versions (5.8, 5.9, 5.10 etc. might be possible). For me the only negative aspect of 5.x is old kernel 2.6.18 whereas 6.x is 2.6.32?
The dilemna is for the CentOS developper team. Following the decision last January, it would be natural that the priority would be to release 5.7, as there are "millions" of existing systems needing to be updated, rather than releasing 6.1, where very few systems are already in production, and 6.1 updates are backported to 6.0.
So I fear that 6.1 will be postponed...
6.1 CentOS packages are already building, as are 5.7 (in parallel).
Do not mix building and re-compiling packages. 5.7 packages are all already known and there was no real show stoppers to re-compile them.
6.1 packages are different story, and I am sure there was several show stoppers that delayed it. Anyhow, it has been only two weeks from 6.0 release, and original projection for 6.0->6.1 was 1 month.
I am wondering how LiveCD release is going, there are several people interested in it.