Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 3/6/07, Ralph Angenendt <ra+redhat at strg-alt-entf.org> wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:25:29AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > Umm CentOS releases updates shortly after RHEL does. Im not sure
> > > what rolling releases you are talking about.
> >
> > Roling in the sense of the minor release integer.
> >
> > Compare
> >
> > http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/isos/i386/
> >
> > to
> >
> > https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/
> >
> > E.g. the range of 4.x versions. SL follows RH in maintaining each
> > point release, while CentOS kind of EOLs the previous point releases.
>
> Ummm. No. I don't think RH still maintains 4. Or 4U1. Or 4U2. So we
> don't either. All updates are going against the latest (misnomed)
> 'quarterly' update. And I don't think that SL does it any different,
> although I might be wrong there. Because every quarterly update is a big
> update set against the previous one (including updates).
>

Yes Red Hat ONLY supports the latest version of its product until
4.5.0 is released. At that point they will be moving to a newer
support paradigm similar to the Scientific Linux. Basically if I am
understanding things correctly.. 4.5.1 will be security updates only
to 4.5.0 and not enhancement additions. 5.0.1 will be the same.

They will also not be back-supporting 4U1->4U4. Only 4.5.0,4.6.0, and
maybe if they have a 4.7.0 is going to be generally maintained as
this.


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