> >People who do not understand the technical issues involved do not see >why we can't just snap our fingers and put out the packages ... well, we >can't. What you explain makes perfect sense and so thanks for taking the time to explain. I was only basing my understanding on what Karanbir wrote on an earlier posting, which suggests that it can be done, although I am not sure how given your explanation. (http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079311.html) Geoff Galitz wrote: > If I understand this correctly... we have critical updates with patches > available but they are waiting about a week before they become available in > the form of Centos 4.8? you need to evaluate if they are relevant to your install or not. > Is that accurate? yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process with the next point release ( 5.4 ). -- Karanbir Singh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090809/34ab33f7/attachment-0005.html>