[Centos] How quickly are RHEL errata released as CentOS errata ?

John Newbigin

jn at it.swin.edu.au
Wed May 5 23:14:02 UTC 2004


I don't think you are querying CentOS-2 but for the record, patches for 
CentOS-2 should be available on mirror.centos.org within 24 hours of the 
srpm becoming available.

There are a number of steps which can stall this process.  Redhat 
releasing the srpm.  The srpm getting to a mirror in Australia.  Me 
downloading from the mirror. Me checking what has changed and making 
modifications if necessary.  Me building & testing the update.  Me 
uploading to mirror.centos.org.

If you are lucky, all this will happen while you are sleeping and in the 
morning there will be a shiny new update to install. :)

All the CentOS-2 updates are in the centos-2/updates directory, even the 
ones which are included on the install CD.

John.

Taco Scargo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am deciding on what 'RHEL clone' to use and prefer to use one that has a
> quick release after RedHat releases an update.
> 
> I checked the repositories, but have not encountered any of the latest
> errata. Am I looking at the wrong place ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Taco
> 
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