[CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On 18/02/11 15:12, Larry Vaden wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Johnny Hughes<johnny at centos.org>  wrote:
>> On 02/18/2011 02:26 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:15:32AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat still has not put several of the sources in their public tree
>>>> either.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So CentOS6 cannot be released, or even built completely before
>>> those missing src.rpms are released?
>>
>> Theoretically, it can not be built, so certainly not *released*, until
>> we have all the SRPMS, no.
>>
>> If said SRPMS are on one of the release Source ISOs, then we have them
>> available there, if they are not then we are stuck.
>
> Johnny,
>
> Does<http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/source/SRPMS/vendor/>
> contain anything y'all need that you don't already have?
>

No disrespect Larry, but pulling missing SRPM packages from Scientific 
Linux is not the answer. The answer lies in comparing those packages 
available on Red Hat's public ftp servers with those in the distro and 
filing bugs against the missing SRPM packages. Red hat are usually quick 
to respond to such issues.