On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:03 -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote: > What's the status of CentOS 3.6? Red Hat released their update 6 > to RHEL 3 on September 28. I updated our RHEL box a couple of > weeks ago and things seem to be running acceptably well. > > The last thing I see in the archives is Johnny Hughes talking > about mirror load from October 13 (and pointing out that the 4.2 > release was well within the two-week time limit promised in the > CentOS FAQ; the 3.6 update has clearly missed that deadline). > > I;m not expecting anything earthshaking in 3.6, but I am curious > about whether the delay is due to no one remembering to flip the > symlink or something more serious. > > If you need more testing, let me know and I can update some of my > lab machines manually and listen for complaints. > > In any case, your work is much appreciated, especially as it's > allowed me to stick with a Red-Hat--based distro and not redo all > the work I'd done to handle installs. > hi, I've not been doing any dev work on 3.6 but I've been following on irc. Short version right now is that the admins/devs are busy dealing with the mirror-servers/masters. There have been a series of problems making sure the infrastructure is in place for them. Beyond that a couple of issues with some of the package builds that have caused some hangups to getting 3.6 out there. -sv