Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.11.2011 23:43, schrieb John R. Dennison: I was wondering if it would be safe to just stay with the 'standard' repo for centos and wait for 6.1 that way or do you suggest adding the CR repo as a necessary event? Depends on if you feel that security updates are important to your

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:47:24PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: but why in the world is an extra repo needed for security-updates? it is like a bad joke installing a os and have to search how to install a repo for ESSENTIAL updates while most people think i have a package manager and get

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/15/2011 04:47 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.11.2011 23:43, schrieb John R. Dennison: I was wondering if it would be safe to just stay with the 'standard' repo for centos and wait for 6.1 that way or do you suggest adding the CR repo as a necessary event? Depends on if you feel

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread Nataraj
On 11/15/2011 02:47 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.11.2011 23:43, schrieb John R. Dennison: I was wondering if it would be safe to just stay with the 'standard' repo for centos and wait for 6.1 that way or do you suggest adding the CR repo as a necessary event? Depends on if you feel that

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/16/2011 12:21 AM, Nataraj piše: The current build problems are hopefully a temporary situation and if they are resolved CentOS users will have the option of the rolling updates or waiting for the update release. For most users, installing updates from the CR repo is the best choice,

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:24:24 AM Les Mikesell wrote: If, in fact, you cannot rebuild a src rpm and get a working copy then in that respect you might as well be using closed, proprietary software. Working and binary compatible are two different things, and typically the 100% binary

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:24:24 AM Les Mikesell wrote: If, in fact, you cannot rebuild a src rpm and get a working copy then in that respect you might as well be using closed, proprietary software. Working and binary

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:53:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Try the other way around: build RHEL from their src rpms, try to run the 3rd party binary... I thought you said that didn't work. If you can't rebuild that source so it works, you might as well not use open source. Ok, let me

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:53:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Try the other way around: build RHEL from their src rpms, try to run the 3rd party binary...  I thought you said that didn't work.  If you can't rebuild that source

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: I don't care in general, but dislike hypocrisy. If you are going to claim to be open source, it should work to rebuild. les ... go rent a forum of your own -- this has no centos aspect any more -- Russ herrold

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific Linux is covering that niche, and has their 6.1 out. In which concrete use cases is 100% binary compatibility important?

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific Linux is covering that niche, and has their 6.1 out. In which

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/01/2011 11:02 AM, Peter Peltonen piše: Hi, On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mathieu Baudiermbaud...@argeo.org wrote: If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, Scientific Linux is

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Peter Peltonen peter.pelto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: No clone distros, including CentOS and Scientific Linux, are perfect. If someone asks which of the two has a better binary compatibility, I would answer, they are equally good. One of the 'selling points' as a big reason to

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-31 Thread William Warren
On 10/30/2011 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Sunday, October 30, 2011 08:38 PM, William Warren wrote: Or move to another distro that has timely security updates and long term support like Centos. What...Ubuntu LTS? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, October 31, 2011 07:46:59 AM William Warren wrote: Like I said before It it too bad RH is doing what they are doing. It is going to mean the death of RHEL rebuilds...look at what is happening to Centos. Per Johnny's statement they can't truly maintain 100% binary compatibility.

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-31 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, William Warren I think many of us would like to see releases in a timely manner. Centos is now months behind in nearly every version with the onset of cent6.  I've started moving boxes to ubuntu due to this increasing delay.  The security of many machines is

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-31 Thread Craig White
On Oct 31, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, William Warren I think many of us would like to see releases in a timely manner. Centos is now months behind in nearly every version with the onset of cent6. I've started moving boxes to ubuntu due to this

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread William Warren
On 10/21/2011 9:23 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 06:25 AM, Steve Walsh wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto pis(e: As far as I am aware, how I understood official explanation, packages that are introduced in CR repo

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread William Warren
On 10/21/2011 10:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 16:02, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: So Centos 6.0 is EOL? not familiar with the rhel life cycle are you? Read this: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread William Warren
On 10/21/2011 12:54 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then,

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/30/2011 01:44 PM, William Warren piše: And that Johnny has been the answer we have been requesting for a long time now. I figured the upstream packaging changes broke your systems even when lance said that wasn't the case. The results speak for themselves. Nothing against the

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/30/2011 01:36 PM, William Warren piše: I think many of us would like to see releases in a timely manner. Centos is now months behind in nearly every version with the onset of cent6. I've started moving boxes to ubuntu due to this increasing delay. The security of many machines is

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/30/2011 02:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/30/2011 01:44 PM, William Warren piše: And that Johnny has been the answer we have been requesting for a long time now. I figured the upstream packaging changes broke your systems even when lance said that wasn't the case. The

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/30/2011 03:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn piše: On 10/30/2011 02:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I do not think there is much to be worried for now. Most/all security patches will come out fairly fast now that CR repo is in place. If need be, there can always be another repo that

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, October 31, 2011 12:11 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/30/2011 03:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn piše: On 10/30/2011 02:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I do not think there is much to be worried for now. Most/all security patches will come out fairly fast now that CR repo

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Christopher Chan
On Sunday, October 30, 2011 04:31 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Craig Whitecraigwh...@azapple.com wrote: /me is puzzled. You spelt it correctly. Maybe not so keen on learning the intricacies of Debian and the 'Debian way'. Linux is still Linux and while

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-30 Thread Christopher Chan
On Sunday, October 30, 2011 08:38 PM, William Warren wrote: Or move to another distro that has timely security updates and long term support like Centos. What...Ubuntu LTS? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Saturday, October 29, 2011 04:36 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: It's a bad thing if you think clones should exist at all. Realistically, we would all probably be better off jumping ship the day of the fedora/EL split, but I've just been too lazy to learn to spell apt-get. /me is puzzled. You

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/28/2011 12:47 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 28/10/11 18:31, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: How is, say, being required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing something you have already

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Saturday, October 29, 2011 04:36 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: It's a bad thing if you think clones should exist at all. Realistically, we would all probably be better off jumping ship the day of the

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I can tell you that we have been contacted by upstream to make sure we **UNDERSTAND** the new AUP restrictions on distribution.  I can also tell you that we (CentOS) are doing everything in our power to meet the

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/29/2011 05:36 PM, Les Mikesell piše: Also, there is probably room for a public, if not legal, complaint about gpl compliance if the source and binary components they distribute don't match in a way that you can rebuild a binary that works the same. Of course there is a lot of

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 20:56 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: On Saturday, October 29, 2011 04:36 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: It's a bad thing if you think clones should exist at all. Realistically, we would all probably be better off jumping ship the day of the fedora/EL split, but I've just

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: /me is puzzled. You spelt it correctly. Maybe not so keen on learning the intricacies of Debian and the 'Debian way'. Linux is still Linux and while there is some learning curve, it does tend to broaden one's

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I did not mean to stir up anything. I was simply asking if I was looking in the wrong place for an update to 6.1 or where are the ISO's? I cannot find anything out there as far as an update. Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/30/2011 12:31 AM, Jerry Geis piše: I did not mean to stir up anything. I was simply asking if I was looking in the wrong place for an update to 6.1 or where are the ISO's? I cannot find anything out there as far as an update. Thanks Jerry Sorry to be blunt, but you are not

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, October 29, 2011 06:31:46 PM Jerry Geis wrote: I cannot find anything out there as far as an update. This has been a useful discourse since the new difficulties that the team is facing are now more widely known. Sometimes the pot needs a good stirring, and this time we got what

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 21, 2011 10:17:18 AM Giles Coochey wrote: It appears that this is not the case, and my only option is to take my servers down the beta route to Centos 6.1 Release Candidates. This is one area in which CentOS and Scientific Linux are different (and it's interesting, reading

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:  Even GPL only requires redistribution by upstream to its customers. With _no additional restrictions_ on subsequent redistribution. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/28/11 8:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lamar Owenlo...@pari.edu wrote: Even GPL only requires redistribution by upstream to its customers. With_no additional restrictions_ on subsequent redistribution. redhat's threat of disabling RHN access for

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 21, 2011 02:22:26 PM Les Mikesell wrote: Which is explicitly imposing additional restrictions. Which is explicitly prohibited in section 6. I don't see any exceptions relating to what the consequences of those restrictions might be. The RHN AUP simply says that if you

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 28, 2011 11:29:52 AM Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: Even GPL only requires redistribution by upstream to its customers. With _no additional restrictions_ on subsequent redistribution. Losing access to RHN does not

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:  Even GPL only requires redistribution by upstream to its customers. With _no additional restrictions_ on subsequent redistribution. Losing access to RHN does not in any way restrict my redistribution of source I already

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/28/2011 06:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Lamar Owenlo...@pari.edu wrote: Even GPL only requires redistribution by upstream to its customers. With _no additional restrictions_ on subsequent redistribution. Losing access to RHN does not in any way

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: How is, say, being required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing something you have already contracted and paid for? It would surprise me if Red Hat would not refund the customer or

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 28/10/11 18:31, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: How is, say, being required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing something you have already contracted and paid for? It would surprise me if

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: The question is, how can a contract containing restrictions on what you can do with GPL covered content not invalidate your own right to redistribute, given that the GPL prohibits additional restrictions? As I

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 28 October 2011 18:54:25 Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: The question is, how can a contract containing restrictions on what you can do with GPL covered content not invalidate your own right to redistribute, given that

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: But RH did not add restrictions. Whatever you get from them, you are free to redistribute, in accord with GPL. There can be *no* *legal* *action* against you if you do so. OTOH, it is their choice whether or not to give

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Friday 28 October 2011 20:45:16 Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: But RH did not add restrictions. Whatever you get from them, you are free to redistribute, in accord with GPL. There can be *no* *legal* *action* against you if

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: That logic depends on a very strange interpretation of the term restriction.  The GPL doesn't narrowly define it narrowly as legal actions, it says you may not impost any further restrictions. True, and that is why it

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Everything's being rolled into the CR repo, so there do not appear to be any ordinary 6.0 updates. well yes: upstream is at 6.1, so updates are happening for 6.1 and 6.0 won't receive any more ordinary upates. The update path for 6.0 is through 6.1 . centos is offering

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Walsh
On 10/21/2011 06:09 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: well yes: upstream is at 6.1, so updates are happening for 6.1 and 6.0 won't receive any more ordinary upates. The update path for 6.0 is through 6.1 . centos is offering CR which allows you to stay up-to-date even though C6.1 is not

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Steve Walsh st...@nerdvana.net.au wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's been built for 6.1 (effectively still in QA), plus some post 6.1

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/20/2011 01:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi gang - Love CentOS - you guys to a fabulous job. It has been a while since I saw any update... I went to twitter.com/centos nothing there, twitter.com/centos6 nothing there, went to the qa calendar stuff nothing there.

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Patrick Hurrelmann
On 21.10.2011 13:00, Steve Clark wrote: On 10/20/2011 01:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi gang - Love CentOS - you guys to a fabulous job. It has been a while since I saw any update... I went to twitter.com/centos nothing there, twitter.com/centos6 nothing there, went

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com escreveu: De: Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com Para: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 21 de Outubro de 2011 9:00:00 (GMT-0300) Auto-Detected Assunto: Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1 Is there a package for the cr repo? I

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto piše: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Steve Walshst...@nerdvana.net.au wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's been built for 6.1

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Walsh
On 10/21/2011 10:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto pis(e: As far as I am aware, how I understood official explanation, packages that are introduced in CR repo already PASSED QA testing, but are in limbo because there are issues with building ISO

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1 Is there a package for the cr repo? I don't see anything like that when I do a yum repolist all. Yep, there is a package... but it is on the CR repo: ftp://(some.centos.mirror)/CentOS/6/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-release-cr-6-0.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm Install

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 06:36 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 06:16 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto piše: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Steve Walshst...@nerdvana.net.au wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 06:25 AM, Steve Walsh wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto pis(e: As far as I am aware, how I understood official explanation, packages that are introduced in CR repo already PASSED QA testing, but are in limbo

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/21/2011 03:09 PM, Johnny Hughes piše: we don't have a CR repo for centosplus ... and I do not see us creating one. We are building and testing the plus kernels too and they will be there on release of 6.1 ... or you can use the ones from toracat's repo. OK, thanks. I already set up

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:23, Johnny Hughes wrote: There is SOME QA ... just not all the QA that they get as part of the main release. They are not right off the build and into the server ... we do our functionality test suite prior to pushing CR (and other tests, and look for repo

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 6:22 AM, Steve Walsh wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's been built for 6.1 (effectively still in QA), plus some post 6.1 updates (Again, still in QA).

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I receiving security updates via 'yum update', which as far as I can tell hasn't installed any updates for

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I receiving security updates via 'yum update', which as

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 08:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 9:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I receiving

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 08:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Giles Coochey wrote: So Centos 6.0 is EOL? not familiar with the rhel life cycle are you? Read this: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, October 21, 2011 16:02, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: So Centos 6.0 is EOL? not familiar with the rhel life cycle are you? Read this: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ ___ Thanks. I see that.

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 09:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 16:02, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: So Centos 6.0 is EOL? not familiar with the rhel life cycle are you? Read this: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, October 21, 2011 16:24, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 09:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: However, if I install whatever latest version of an operating system distribution. I expect to be able to run something that will give me stable security-updates for that distribution. It

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 09:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 16:02, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: So Centos 6.0 is EOL? snip However, if I install whatever latest version of an operating system distribution. I expect to be able to run

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: If not, what do I need to do to get security updates? These are not production systems, but I don't want to break anything unless it's broken already (i.e. security vulnerabilities and bug fixes). I think it is best to

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over the weeks and months, there were updates. All of a sudden, there are *no* updates for the 6.0 point release, which is a major change in what everyone

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: There is nothing BETA about the CR repo ... it is the CR repo. Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over the weeks and months, there were updates. All of a

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over the weeks and months, there were updates. All of a sudden, there are *no* updates for

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over the weeks and months, there were updates.

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: Yes, and NOW the release process is MUCH harder. [] Thanks for that explanation. I knew that Red Hat's internal development process was throwing wrenches in the CentOS build system, but I hadn't realized how systemic and legally complicated the

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS on any ISOs ... and they have completely changed their Authorized Use Policy so that we

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS on any ISOs ... and they have completely

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Gary Greene
On 10/21/11 10:20 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS on any ISOs ... and they

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks, that is the part I was looking for also...I wish thee was someway that Redhat would work with folks to not make it so difficult, I realize that the original intent was to make it harder for Oracle and the likes but the end up hurting the community more than they hurt the big guys...bummer

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Gary Greene
On 10/21/11 10:25 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: I've never quite understood how anything containing any GPL-covered code could have any redistribution/use restrictions added. Trust me ... the Linux Foundation thinks it is OK, so we are SOL. I'd rather get

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over the weeks and months,

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: I've never quite understood how anything containing any GPL-covered code could have any redistribution/use restrictions added. Trust me ... the Linux Foundation

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Gary Greene wrote: Trust me ... the Linux Foundation thinks it is OK, so we are SOL. I'd rather get the opinion of the FSF (those whom wrote the license) instead of LF, as they don't matter as much, really. Feel free to approach whoever you wish on your own account

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: I've never quite understood how anything containing any GPL-covered code could have any redistribution/use restrictions added. The GPL, v2, only requires access to sources where one is providing binaries Where do you

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/21/2011 12:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: You'd need a copyright owner to initiate legal action.   And the FSF generally is more concerned about source availability although binaries are clearly derived from source and covered by the same copyright, and I can't

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 12:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: snip Now, for version 6, they have: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 12:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: snip Now, for version 6, they have: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi gang - Love CentOS - you guys to a fabulous job. It has been a while since I saw any update... I went to twitter.com/centos nothing there, twitter.com/centos6 nothing there, went to the qa calendar stuff nothing there. Last I saw was something in September saying all RPM's are built and

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