CentOS - May 2004 - How quickly are RHEL errata released as CentOS errata ?

Hi,

I am deciding on what 'RHEL clone' to use and prefer to use one that has
a
quick release after RedHat releases an update.

I checked the repositories, but have not encountered any of the latest
errata. Am I looking at the wrong place ?

Thanks,

Taco

Sorry to have polluted you inboxes.... I have found the updates directory
myself now. Must have still slept while I was browsing the mirror.

Thanks,

Taco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taco Scargo" <centos at nospamplease.scargo.nl>
To: <centos at caosity.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: [Centos] How quickly are RHEL errata released as CentOS errata ?

> Hi,
>
> I am deciding on what 'RHEL clone' to use and prefer to use one
that has a
> quick release after RedHat releases an update.
>
> I checked the repositories, but have not encountered any of the latest
> errata. Am I looking at the wrong place ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Taco
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
>

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 03:59, Taco Scargo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am deciding on what 'RHEL clone' to use and prefer to use one
that has a
> quick release after RedHat releases an update.
> 
CentOS Release 3.1 now includes all updates released before March 19,
2004, later ones are in the updates repo.
> I checked the repositories, but have not encountered any of the latest
> errata. Am I looking at the wrong place ?
> 
Here are all the updates after March 19, 2004:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.1/updates/i386/RPMS/

> Thanks,
> 
> Taco

I won't try to steer you to one RHEL clone or the other, but basically
WhiteBox EL (www.whiteboxlinux.org), Tao (www.taolinux.org) and CentOS
are functionally the same.

I like the fact that CentOS did a respin on 3/19/2004 ... WhiteBoxEL is
also planning a respin after the next quarterly update cycle from
RedHat.

I am on both the CentOS and WhiteBoxEL mailing lists (I use both
distros) and I think either will fit the bill and both do updates fairly
quickly.  CentOS seems to have more developers doing the updates, but
the WhiteBox mailing list is more active.  It is pretty much a tossup
... which is why I have both installed.  

Tao is probably good too, but I don't use it, so I can't really comment
on it.

Also, another good RHEL clone is Fermi Linux
(http://www-oss.fnal.gov/projects/fermilinux/lts301/index.html).   I
have installed it, but I didn't continue to use it and have since erased
it ... so I can't really comment on Fermi Linux either.

- Johnny Hughes

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Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> I am on both the CentOS and WhiteBoxEL mailing lists (I use both 
> distros) and I think either will fit the bill and both do updates fairly 
> quickly.  CentOS seems to have more developers doing the updates, but 
> the WhiteBox mailing list is more active.  It is pretty much a tossup 
> ... which is why I have both installed. 
I've thought about this -- why doesn't CentOS and WBEL merge? It sure 
seems like they do exactly the same thing. I'm sure people have thought 
about it, is there already a thread archived on this somewhere you know 
about?

-te

-- 
Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com

I don't think you are querying CentOS-2 but for the record, patches for 
CentOS-2 should be available on mirror.centos.org within 24 hours of the 
srpm becoming available.

There are a number of steps which can stall this process.  Redhat 
releasing the srpm.  The srpm getting to a mirror in Australia.  Me 
downloading from the mirror. Me checking what has changed and making 
modifications if necessary.  Me building & testing the update.  Me 
uploading to mirror.centos.org.

If you are lucky, all this will happen while you are sleeping and in the 
morning there will be a shiny new update to install. :)

All the CentOS-2 updates are in the centos-2/updates directory, even the 
ones which are included on the install CD.

John.

Taco Scargo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am deciding on what 'RHEL clone' to use and prefer to use one
that has a
> quick release after RedHat releases an update.
> 
> I checked the repositories, but have not encountered any of the latest
> errata. Am I looking at the wrong place ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Taco
> 
> 
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> 

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School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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