On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/16/2011 04:31 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 15/02/11 17:25, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >>> Let's see. 7 weeks after a RHEL release, we have: >> >> For RHEL6, lets make that 14 weeks. And RHEL5.6 got released 9 weeks after >> RHEL6. > > The FIRST build of a distribution (the .0 of 4.0 or 5.0) takes MUCH > longer than the subsequent rebuilds. This is because you have NOTHING > to start from except SRPMS. You also do not know the environment that > upstream is using to run their "Build Roots" in. We also know nothing > about which packages will and will not build as written (there are many > that require us to research and provide hints to the build suystem. > Hints are things that need to be added that are not called out in the SRPM). CentOS 4.0 was released 23 days after RHEL4.0 CentOS 5.0 was released 29 days after RHEL5.0 CentOS 6.0 is *not* released 103 days after RHEL6.0 Source: wikipedia Granted, RHEL6 is larger than RHEL5 which was larger than RHEL4, still... PS And this time I am not off-by-1 (month) ;-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]