On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 04/02/2015 12:14 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 11:57:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>>> How, without a cross reference of some sort, do you know if a given > >>>> CentOS iso will install on hardware where you know that the needed > >>>> driver was added in an RH minor rev? > >>> always use the latest one. > >> Which, combined with the possibility of releasing multiples per minor > >> rev and no determinate time frame for the actual initial Centos minor > >> release, really means nothing. > > > > Well... > > > > "Always use latest one" *plus* "look for the latest release > > announcement". > > > > Like > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-March/021005.html > > > > A cross-reference doesn't really seem necessary because usually > > hardware enablement is additive. Either CentOS is up to the version you > > need, or it isn't yet. > > > > > > If you really _need_ a specific minor release and want to _stay_ on it, > > to my knowledge, that's not something CentOS has _ever_ done anyway. > > You can pay for Red Hat's "EUS", or, I think Scientific Linux actually > > does keep the ".y" releases separate (but I'm not sure of the details > > as to how that's implemented). > > > > That last paragraph is EXACTLY the message we are trying to put out > here. CentOS releases are NOT the same as EUS and have never been .. > yet that seems to be what people expect. We want there to be no doubt > on this issue. > > I'm sorry, but I think you all have chosen a very poor way to put out a message. For me at least, this deviation from both the past conventions, and from the current naming conventions of the upstream vendor has real and annoying consequences. Soliciting our feedback *before* changing everything regarding release names would have been nice. -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu