[CentOS] Re: tzdata update, but no announcement?

Wed Mar 28 15:39:39 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

John Summerfield spake the following on 3/27/2007 5:28 PM:
> Joe Pruett wrote:
>>> Is it this one in the upstream?
>>>
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2007-0128.html
>>
>> yes, that is the one.  i was wondering if the announcement just was
>> forgotten or if the updates wasn't really ready yet but slipped into
>> the repos.
> 
> Which would annoy you more?
> 1. Update sans announcement
> 2. Announcement sans update.
> 
> There will always be a timing issue, and I'd go with releasing the
> update, allowing mirrors to sync and then the announcement.
> 
> 
> 
> 
As long as the sysop doesn't depend on announcements to do updates, it
shouldn't matter.
You can always cron yum check-update, and read the cron mail.
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