[CentOS] CentOS-4.4 - Some major changes on the way

Tue Jun 20 16:47:26 UTC 2006
Simon J Mudd <sjmudd at pobox.com>

agibson at ptm.com (Adam Gibson) writes:

> Simon J Mudd wrote:
> > mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes) writes:
> >
> >> I would like to take the time to inform people that CentOS-4.4 will
> >> contain some major changes.  The changes are significant enough that I
> >> would like to spell out some of them now, probably at least a month
> >> before the release of the upstream "EL4 update 4" is released.
> > [snip changes]
> > I assume from the comment that you make that these changes WILL be
> > different to the versions expected to be distributed by RedHat?
> 
> Re-read the post.  I think you assumptions are wrong.  They are just
> warning that the upstream RHEL stuff is changing to give us a heads up.
> 
> "ALL these changes will be implemented upstream and rolled out in the
> released source code, so they will be incorporated into CentOS as well."

Then, yes, I misread the original post and apologise.  I had assumed that
the CentOS developers were planning on providing newer versions than
the upstream source.

Sorry for the noise.

Regards,

Simon