On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:22 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:56 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > > My original understanding was that only security patches get issued > > between quarterly releases. But that then the distro gets updated with > > bug fixes 2 to 4 times per year. > > > > I may be getting this all wrong, but I get the impression that there are > > 3-4 month periods of quiescence punctuated by short periods (or a day?) > > of significantly more intensive patching. > > > > Is that correct? > > > > That is generally correct ... the upstream provider generally releases > security patches between the update set releases. They generally > release bugfix and enhancement updates during an update set (or as we > call it a point release). > > They also generally release an update set at 3-4 month intervals. > > The update sets contain both security, bufix, and enchantment updates > though ... and normally many of the new enhancement and bugfix updates > are required as dependencies for the security updates. > > All of these things are general though ... to see exactly what updates > were released and when, look here (for the upstream EL4 product): OK ... I don't know what happened as I pasted a link in here .. here it is again: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4as-errata.html > > You can see every update and the date it was released ... you can also > see the update set dates of: > > Release = 2005-02-14 > > update1 = 2005-06-09 > > update2 = 2005-10-05 > > (this is about 4 months between release sets) > > You can also see that there were: > > 27 day zero updates on 02-15-2005, 3 bugfix updates between release > update1, 3 security updates as part of update1, 0 bugfix updates between > update1 and update2, 11 security updates as part of update2, 5 > bugfix/enhancement updates between update2 and now. > > We at CentOS release the updates that are released upstream ... when > they are released upstream ... we do so regardless of whether they are > bugfix or security or enhancement updates ... because, they were > released when they were for a reason :) > > Some other rebuild distros ONLY release security updates between update > sets ... others release hardly any updates at all. We personally think > the the upstream provider is the absolute best enterprise distro in the > world, and that they are smart enough to release the updates that they > want when they want them released, therefore, we release the same > packages too. > _______________________________________________ -------------- 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/20060130/ef15e87f/attachment-0005.sig>