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

[Johnny Hughes]

On 05/15/2011 08:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 16:35, Michel Donais <donais at telupton.com> wrote:
>> A perhaps stupid question from a newby
>>
>> Why 4.9 is out in a so long time frame after 5.0?
>>
>>
>>                       5.6 -- CentOS - 4/8/11    SL - (Soon)   <--
>> same time frame (1 of 3)
>>                       5.5 -- CentOS - 5/14/10   SL - 5/19/10
>>                       5.4 -- CentOS - 10/21/9   SL - 11/4/9
>>                       5.3 -- CentOS -  3/31/9    SL - 3/19/9
>>                       5.2 -- CentOS -  6/24/8    SL - 6/26/8
>>                       5.1 -- CentOS -  12/2/7    SL - 1/16/8
>>                       5.0 -- CentOS -  4/12/7    SL -  5/4/7
>>                       4.9 -- CentOS -  3/2/11    SL -  5/6/11  <--
>>
> 
> It's a different branch. The 4.x branch had/has continued support even
> though the 5.x (and now 6.x) branches are released.
> 

Every branch of Enterprise Linux is supported with updated for 7 years
... that is the purpose of Enterprise Linux.  This is as compared to the
standard Linux distributions that usually have 1 year (current and last
version ... release every 6 months).

More info here for the upstream ... CentOS mirrors all but the "Extended
Life Cycle":

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

(CentOS would also mirror the Extended Life Cycle, but we can not get
the SRPMS from the upstream provider)



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