On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:22 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 13:06, Lance Davis wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > Read "CentOS 4.2" as "CentOS 4, quarterly update rollup 2". I believe > > > the use of a minor version number is a mistake for this reason, but that > > > is the way CentOS does it. > > > maybe we should change it next time to 4u3 raher than 4.3 :) > > Well, I for one am not confused about it. 4u3, 4.3, same difference to my > mind. But obviously there are people who do have some confusion over it. I > guess it boils down to a simple choice: spend a few minutes making the > version numbers align with upstream (twiddling a few bits here and there) or > writing an article/page on why this is the way it's done that takes more > time, requires more work, uses more space, and still has to be referred to > every time someone asks this question. It's all a matter of which is more > work to the people doing the work. :-) I don't care either way, as it's > just XOR'ing the release with 006B00. :-) There is an FAQ concerning this ... and a readme Here is the readme: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.0/readme here is the FAQ: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34 And here is the Lifetime support FAQ for CentOS-4: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=42 The bottom line (as several people have tried to explain) is that we provide exactly what the upstream provider provides ... full EL 4 support until Feb 29, 2012 including all updates. The minor number only signifies the update set (just like it is in the /etc/redhat-release file upstream). We provide much more in this respect than the upstream provider ... we have network installable update sets, fully available trees for each update set, and a vault that contains the old trees -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051019/6dd2f14d/attachment-0005.sig>