Fabian Arrotin wrote: > carlopmart wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Would it be possible to release CentOS EUS with their respective patches like >> upstream vendor does?? For example two releases or one release back: 5.4 and 5.3 or >> 5.4 only. >> >> Why? Because for example for important bugs detected on upstream 5.5 version like >> this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583218. This bug doesn't exists >> under 5.4 release, and IMHO, it is a very important bug (it is marked as urgent on >> upstream). >> >> I think it would be nice to have the possibility to choose between one version >> and another according to the problems that arise. >> >> Many thanks. >> > > Can you imagine the work behind maintaining 5.y itself ? Yes, I can imagine, but just wondering if that possibility could exist. So adding > sub-branches like 5.x.z is not feasible and it was discussed the need or > not to provide and support such .z branches. > I can understand that such bug isn't good to have on production > machines, but if you still need such support on production machines, why > not subscribing to the real .z branch maintainer, aka Red Hat ? > Just my personal opinion though .. I have a paid subscription from RedHat for my prodcution systems, but my devel and test environments are CentOS, and all of them boots from a SAN via iSCSI storage ... Thanks. > -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com