[Centos] some questions

Tue Feb 15 15:29:34 UTC 2005
Michiel van Es <michiele at info.nl>


Ryan Sweet wrote:
> 
> Give it at least a few hours [days?].  The RHEL SRPMS only went live 
> sometime yesterday - they have to be downloaded and then it can take 
> some amount of CPU time to rebuild everything and then to spin new ISO 
> images.  I am guessing that Johnny Hughes or others in the Centos realm 
> are already rebuilding them at this moment.
> 
> If you have a box where the errata are urgently needed (its a beta, thus 
> it shouldn't be exposed thus security errata shouldn't be urgent, but 
> that is a lot of "shouldn't") you ought to be able to rebuild the RHEL 
> SRPMS yourself by downloading the relevant SRPMS from RH and then using
> 
> "rpmbuild --rebuild <file.srpm>"
> 
> where file.srpm is the srpm you downloaded.
> 
> regards,
> -Ryan

Thanks..I'll wait for the official CentOS 4 release..

Michiel

> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering if RHEL 4 already available is...and the CentOS version.
>> I am running Centos 4 beta but I did not receive any updates from 
>> January - now..and I saw a bunch of RHEL 4 errata updates today.
>>
>> Thanks for your answer.
>>
>