On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
If you really _need_ a specific minor release and want to _stay_ on it, to my knowledge, that's not something CentOS has _ever_ done anyway. You can pay for Red Hat's "EUS", or, I think Scientific Linux actually does keep the ".y" releases separate (but I'm not sure of the details as to how that's implemented).
That last paragraph is EXACTLY the message we are trying to put out here. CentOS releases are NOT the same as EUS and have never been .. yet that seems to be what people expect. We want there to be no doubt on this issue.
But you are adding more confusion than you resolve if the designation does not indicate that a specified version is 'at least' up to the equivalent of some RH minor rev. Even for the people who might have incorrectly thought is was pinned there. And now there yet another arbitrary difference in what you need to know about one major number vs. another for the long interval they will co-exist.