All of this is good feedback, lets take this on board and see how we can make that text clearer! Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:03:10 +0000: > > As you see from quite a few inquiries over the last days that parapgraph is > *easily* misread. Don't take it personal ;-) > Apart from those questions from people who didn't read it at all there a > several questions about the content that all go in the same direction or > simply don't understand it. > >> you can still read the version from before my change - and even there it >> clearly states that you need to change yum configs etc to make changes >> to the repos your system sees. > > No, it says "manually telling yum to do so" which could just mean "edit > that release file!" in this context. Beat me and others, but that's what we > read in it. > > There is no mention or indication to >> anything requiring a change in the redhat-release file. > > I just re-read the paragraph again carefully and I think it is the first > sentence that creates the confusion. It says "for a period of time next to > the latest version of the 5 series" one can wonder about a minute what this > really means) and then at the end it says "and you will not move to a newer > release without ...". This *seems* to indicate that if the release file > contains "5.1" yum is going to provide updates for 5.1 and stop with > updating when 5.2 comes out. And you would either have to set it to 5.2 or > 5 to continue with updating. Especially that "newer release" seems to > indicatethis. > As I read it now what actually is going to happen is that upstream > *branches* beginning with 5.1 to 5.1.1, 5.1.2 etc. and they will keep > providing updates for 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and the "main" 5 stream until the main > stream support cycle ends. But this won't be determined of the release > file, it's only an indicator. thats mostly correct, except for the fact that there will be only 3 releases in any branch, so while /5/ will continue to be supported for the 7 years + that a EL version is, the 5.1 will only exist for 18 months, after which, your machine is looking at orphan repos ( or maybe redhat will workout some cleaver way of bringing the machine back upto /5/ - which would be quite drastic and mostly a bad idea , since the package change set from 5.1 to 5.4 ( which is what /5/ will be at the time ) - could be quite large. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq