Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Sam Trenholme
Not that it matters, but the last time I checked, SL had not released their 4.9 or 5.6 releases either. On the other hand, unlike CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL) is backporting 5.6 security fixes. Indeed, all of the security issues CentOS 5.5 has right now aren't in SL. SL is a fine product

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Sam Trenholme
* As mentioned before, Scientific Linux 6.0 is out.  What hasn't been mentioned here is that while SL 5.6 hasn't come out, 5.6 security updates are being backported to SL 5.5.  Ditto with SL 4 (no 4.9 but security patches look current) And we try very hard not to release things until they

[CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-22 Thread Sam Trenholme
Hello everyone: * DNS does not have a refresh rate. In DNS, the person running the domain determines what the refresh rate (it's called TTL in DNS) for their records is; for example, Google has a TTL of once per hour and my domains (maradns.org, etc.) have a TTL of one day. * As mentioned