Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Does this also mean that the CentOS 5 IA64 port will now be CentOS 5.1 IA64 instead?
I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? All Arch releases follow the same update / rebuild cycle.
Anyway, once we get the release out - the updates on IA64 will track i386/x86_64 very closely ( prolly in sync ). This does depend on hardware availability. At the moment we have 2 cores churning out the _entire_ IA64 stuff. And we dont really have failover capability. So if someone has IA64 h/w around that they want to donate, it would be much welcome.
I do not think that the IA64 port will be out by December. I am not sure if there is a core developer who can work on IA64 fulltime to deal with all the headaches that keep showing up. [IA64 seems to be the Alpha architecture of today..]
err ? There will be a 5.1 IA64 release within 2 to 3 weeks of i686/x86_64 going out to the mirrors. We have IA64 availability within the buildsystem and tracking buildqueues.
I am saying 2 to 3 weeks, just so we get the bandwidth to test this thing a bit.