On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:21:55AM -0400, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
I might be stupid and ask an idiot or offensive question, but here it is:
"Why was tzdata-2007h [RHEA-2007:0928-05] only released for CentOS 2, when upstream has released it for all the versions?"
It has been released to CentOS-3 on Oct 7th, in the updates repository. The other maintainers have their own schedule/priorities.
<offensive mode> Making CentOS a reality is not our daily job/duty, remember? </offensive>
The guys from X/OS have released it for 5.0 along with the other updates (on Oct. 9).
<troll mod activated> No one prevents you for switching distribution. </troll>
Are the "enhancements"... "not important" as long as they're not "security updates"?
Speaking for CentOS-3, the enhancements used to go to the fasttrack repo, ie pending updates for the next point release. Since CentOS-3.9 is the last respin, all the RHEA are now in updates.
True, the guys from SL have only released tzdata-2007h in "fastbugs" -- which is something you should not use --, but I am asking in a single place: why?
Ask on the SL mailing list, we can't speak for them!
Tru