[CentOS] Re: "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-12 Thread Scott Silva
What Redhat is now also going to offer in about 6 months time, is the ability for people to just stay within one branch of the release ( so, people who installed 5.1 might want to stay within the 5.1 package set and not get any enhancements, or bugfix's or package updates - they just get a

[CentOS] Re: "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 12/13/2007 8:03 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: Kai Schaetzl wrote: 5.1 - 18 months 5.1.1 - 6 months 5.1.2 - another 6 months 5.1.3 - another 6 months 5.2 - next update release cycle That is not correct the FAQ seems to imply: 5.1 - 18 months 5.1.1 - 18 months 5.1.2 - 18 months 5.1

Re: [CentOS] Re: "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Scott Silva wrote: If you wanted to re-install every 12 to 18 months, you might as well use Fedora! This just seems to go "bass ackwards" to what an enterprise distro means. I guess RedHat is just trying to play to a bigger audience to maybe boost their revenue stream a bit, which I don't fault