[CentOS] 4.1 being dropped from mirrors

Wed Oct 19 17:00:09 UTC 2005
BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net>


--- Leonard Isham <leonard.isham at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/19/05, BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > Just to let everyone know that the CentOS 4.1 tree will be dropped from
> > > the mirrors shortly, since 4.2 has now been out for a week. If anyone
> > > has their yum config's hardwired to point at 4.1 - those config's will
> > > now stop working.
> > >
> > > The 4.1 repo's will be available at http://vault.centos.org/ once they
> > > are removed from http://mirror.centos.org/ ( and all external mirrors ).
> > >
> > > If you wish to stay with 4.1, keep in mind that updates and security
> > > fix's are no longer pushed out for 4.1, and therefore we recommend
> > > everyone moves to 4.2, if you have not already done so.
> > >
> > > - K
> > >
> > > --
> > > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> >
> >
> > I thought each release of Centos had a longer support life
> > cycye than this.
> >
> > What then is the difference (in this respect) then between
> > Centos and Fedora Core?
> 
> CentOS follows the upstream and CentOS 4 support is much longer than
> Fedora Core.  The upstream provider calls these updates and for
> support updates have to be applied as released.
> 
> CentOS provides the ability to "freeze" at a .X that is not available
> from the upstream provider.  Since this is not provided upstream it
> will not receive updates.
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
>

Humm.. Even Red Hat is supporting RHEL releases longer than this.
We use  RHEL  AS Release with full support. 

Does this mean if Red Hat comes out with more updates for RHEL 4.1 
you will not apply them to Centos 4.1 anny more?