Hi,
We still have a problem with CentOS-5 updates not being available up to 3
to 7 days after they were announced by Red Hat and appeared on the FTP
server.
Additionally, CentOS 4.8 still hasn't been pushed to the QA team.
Let's take 2 examples for C-5 updates, the recent kernel update and the
firefox update. According to what I can find:
* firefox 3.0.11-2.el5_3
timestamp on RH ftp: 09 Jun 2009 12:55
announced by RH: 11 Jun 2009 19:22 CEST
built by SL: 12 Jun 2009 17:30 CEST
timestamp on SL ftp: 12 Jun 2009 19:39 CEST
announced by SL: 12 Jun 2009 22:23 CEST
built by CentOS: 17 Jun 2009 03:03 CEST
timestamp on mirror: 19 Jun 2009 11:05 CEST
announced by CentOS: 19 Jun 2009 11:07 CEST
* kernel 2.6.18-128.1.15.el5
timestamp on RH ftp: 15 Jun 2009 05:22
announced by RH: 16 Jun 2009 18:39 CEST
built by CentOS: 17 Jun 2009 02:16 CEST
timestamp on mirror: 19 Jun 2009 09:43 CEST
announced by CentOS: 19 Jun 2009 09:44 CEST
Having te kernel 60h after Red Hat is questionable, but having firefox
arrive more than week after Red Hat announced it is probably harder to
explain.
The kernel update is of severity Important, but the firefox update is
deemed Critical.
Apart from that, we haven't seen CentOS-4.8 hit the QA team for 1 month
now. No reports of what is going on or what is stalling the release. Since
the QA team will need some time to test installations, we can expect
another 2 weeks delay, which would make it 7+ weeks before it hits the
mirrors if it would be delivered today, which is unlikely.
So I don't want to be the guy who is serving you the bad news, but unless
we do something about it from an organisational point of view, things are
unlikely to improve.
So, what can we do about this to improve the situation ?
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