On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 11:45, Robert wrote: > > > anyways, the question i am wondering is... when a mainstream package like > > Apache httpd is upgraded to a newer version and released by the package > > maintainers, how long does it take for that to be picked up by our > > "upstream" and then incorporated and pushed to CentOS availability? > > The short answer is 'never'. The point of enterprise distributions > is that within their lifespan there are never major changes to > the included applications. Instead, the old versions are supported > by backporting security and bug fixes to the original releases so > anything that depends on current behavior does not break. Sometimes > that's what you want; sometimes it isn't... Right ... during the lifetime of CentOS-4, it will most likely be httpd-2.0.52-* IF (not likely) the upstream el4 distro changes to a newer version, so will CentOS. CentOS's goal is to have the exact same versions as the upstream el4 distro. -------------- 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/20050920/925abcce/attachment-0004.sig>