Thanks for that quick response! I guess I should have looked closer through the wiki. Much appreciated! On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 May 2013, "Bidwell, Christopher" <cbidwell at usgs.gov> > wrote: > > > My question is what kind of time frame are we looking at when a > > vulnerability (critical or high) is announced and a patch has been > > released for RHEL does it get implemented into CentOS? > > >From the FAQ, http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General: > > > 2. How long after Red Hat publishes a fix does it take for CentOS to > > publish a fix? > > > > Our goal is to have individual RPM packages available on the mirrors > > within 72 hours of their release, and normally they are available > > within 24 hours. Occasionally packages are delayed for various > > reasons. On rare occasions packages may be built and pushed to the > > mirrors but not available via yum. (This is because yum-arch has not > > been run on the master mirror. This may happen when issues with > > upstream packages are discovered shortly after their release, and if > > releasing the package would break it's functionality.) > > -- > Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> > Mekaro en Otavo, Kanado, 18-20 majo 2013: http://mekaro.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Chris Bidwell, CEH, CPT, RHCSA Red Hat Linux Administrator National Earthquake Information Center US Geological Survey email: cbidwell at usgs.gov work: 303-273-8642 mobile: 303-435-6362