On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, centos-announce-request@centos.org wrote:

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Today's Topics:

1. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 i386 pidgin     Update      (Karanbir Singh)   2. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 pidgin   Update      (Karanbir Singh)   3. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 freetype Update      (Karanbir Singh)   4. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 i386 freetype   Update      (Karanbir Singh)

Just received the above. Ran yum update:

[mhr@mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update Password: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.cogentcloud.com * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com * extras: mirrors.easynews.com kbs-CentOS-Extras | 951 B 00:00 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 updates | 951 B 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update

I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering:

Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated?

I know what's involved in releasing and announcing updates and such (done that enough!), so I'm not complaining, but I am curious. The last several of these I had to wait 6-8 hours or more before the updates were yum-able.

Of course, it would be nice, from an end-user's perspective, if the updates were available by the time the announcement went out, and ISTR it used to be this way....

Anyway, to the CentOS team: great job of keeping us up-to-date, especially on security issues. This is just a nit, of mine, no worries....

Thanks!

mhr