[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed May 11 01:19:22 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 03:12 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 
> > Alain Péan wrote:
> >  > The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL
> >> 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for
> >> C6.0, and it will be better to stay under SL6, until the release of
> >> C6.1. I already installed three machines under SL6, and it works fine.
> >
> > Once 6.0 packages are figured out (how to compile them), newer versions
> > of those packages in 6.1 will be much easier to compile, so I expect no
> > more then one month to pass from C6.0 to C6.1
> 
> Do you expect the C6.0 -> C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less 
> complex than the C5.5 -> C5.6 differences ?
> 
> And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would 
> take no more than 1 month ?
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exactly, and there are additional packages in 6.1 that weren't ready
when 6.0 was released.

Craig


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