Hi folks, Normally people ask "when is CentOS 4.7 coming" and they are told "when it is ready". Dag posted on his blog about it going to testing in July while it was supposed to be syncing to the mirrors on Sept 5/6th according to Karanbir. Is there something going on behind the scenes? I have not seen Johnny Hughes or even Dag posting on this list for some time. CentOS has gone for some time while other rebuilds folded so I wouldn't like it to follow the same way. Thanks, Josh
Josh Donovan wrote:> Is there something going on behind the scenes? I have not seen Johnny > Hughes or even Dag posting on this list for some time. CentOS has gone > for some time while other rebuilds folded so I wouldn't like it to > follow the same way.Don't fret, that won't happen. But yes, 4.7 needs to get out of the door. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080910/719827c1/attachment-0002.sig>
on 9-10-2008 1:02 AM Josh Donovan spake the following:> Hi folks, > > Normally people ask "when is CentOS 4.7 coming" and they are told "when it is ready". Dag posted on his blog about it going to testing in July while it > was supposed to be syncing to the mirrors on Sept 5/6th according to > Karanbir. > > Is there something going on behind the scenes? I have not seen Johnny Hughes > or even Dag posting on this list for some time. CentOS has gone for some time while other rebuilds folded so I wouldn't like it to follow the same way. > > Thanks, > Josh > > >AFAIR the mirrors get syncs of the rpms and such, but not the meta data for yum. That way more mirrors can catch up without immediately getting hammered with downloads. When enough mirrors are synced, the meta data either goes out or is created and the announcement is usually made. The meta data syncs fairly fast. So mirrors could be catching up right now, but a yum update wouldn't tell you anything. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080910/84e032fa/attachment-0002.sig>
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Scott Silva wrote:> on 9-10-2008 1:02 AM Josh Donovan spake the following: >> Hi folks,>> Normally people ask "when is CentOS 4.7 coming" and they >> are told "when it is ready". Dag posted on his blog about >> it going to testing in July while it was supposed to be >> syncing to the mirrors on Sept 5/6th according to Karanbir.>> Is there something going on behind the scenes? I have not >> seen Johnny Hughes or even Dag posting on this list for >> some time. CentOS has gone for some time while other >> rebuilds folded so I wouldn't like it to follow the same >> way.QA is and has been done; the handout to the mirrors has not sufficiently converged to complete for the load which a 'bitflip' will cause. We would rather NOT be answering 'why is yum failing' or worse, publish partial sync images whch waste bandwidth with incomplete images (which provoke even more questions: 'my md5sum on disk ... is ... but it says ...') soon, soon -- Russ herrold