On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Alex/AT wrote: > The "tzdata-2011h-3.el6.noarch.rpm" needs to be pushed into mainline 6.0 repo > ASAP. The mainline 6.0 repo version of tzdata contains no update for latest > Russian (and maybe some others, don't know) timezone changes, causing major > headaches. and yet I see in today's stream: tzdata-2011l-4.el6.src.rpm ... this particular package is usually a trivial package to rebuild -- BUT THE Java related one is NOT. Local authorities dont plan ahead, and fixing the matter is already documented in the wiki with the 'rebuilding SRPMs' article Coming up with a policy for 'special casing' CR matter into updates seems like a discussion we need to have first. I am not against doing so in limited cases. but we need to consider the liklihood of breaking update path, and indeed, running installs, first -- Russ herrold