[CentOS] Re: Want to _prevent_ upgrade to centos 5.2
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.comWed Jul 2 18:50:52 UTC 2008
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on 7-2-2008 10:37 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> CentOS-5 is the real version ... 5.2 is just a point in time set of >> updates for CentOS-5. Understand that if you had RHEL-5 and ran an >> update, it would also update you to the same packages. What this >> means is that 5.2 is just an update set for CentOS-5 .. not really a >> new version. > > I think the firefox/OOo version jumps are the surprises here. We've > come to expect boring consistency with few feature changes across minor > updates. I think it is a great thing for the desktop apps to change > faster than the base os and server apps, but it seems like an upstream > policy change especially for the big jump in firefox. > I'm almost sure it was a logistics change and not policy. They probably hit a wall in backporting patches to 1.5 tree of Firefox. So if they had to jump, jump with both feet out! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080702/1aebeb47/attachment-0001.sig>
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