Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-09 Thread Christopher J. Buckley
On 3 September 2011 16:00, Vesselin Kolev v...@lcpe.uni-sofia.bg wrote: Do You realise how critical is the situation now? Maybe you should think on what the words Enterprise mean. Or maybe You should think how to get back the lost confidence, because too many people now think that CentOS is

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Christopher J. Buckley wrote: /me thinks you should quit whining about a volunteer driven project, and get your chequebook out and purchase a subscription from the upstream vendor if timely patches are of importance to you. Whining about when 6 was

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-09 Thread Drew
Note that this reply is not designed to stir up a bunch of list trolls and this thread degenerating into a pissing contest isn't going to help anyone. I'll just cue the drum-roll. :-) -- Drew Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Marie Curie

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-06 Thread security
Le 03/09/2011 20:15, John Kennedy a écrit : 2 things to keep in mind... 1) the httpd dos vuln does not even have a Red Hat patch yet, only a work around. 2) the people who work on CentOS are VOLUNTEERS. They do not get paid which is a large part of why CentOS is free. If you need up to

[CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-03 Thread Vesselin Kolev
Today is September 3, 2011. There are no _any_ CentOS 6 security updates for a month (during August). And at the moment, the usage of CentOS 6 as a server platform is irresponsible risk (just for example - there is an uncovered httpd DoS, the same is for Samba, e.t.c). And more and more people

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-03 Thread John Kennedy
2 things to keep in mind... 1) the httpd dos vuln does not even have a Red Hat patch yet, only a work around. 2) the people who work on CentOS are VOLUNTEERS. They do not get paid which is a large part of why CentOS is free. If you need up to the minute updates, maybe you should be using RHEL.

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-03 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, John Kennedy wrote: 2 things to keep in mind... 1) the httpd dos vuln does not even have a Red Hat patch yet, only a work around. Actually, no, it is avaiable; CR repository has it for C5. But that aside... 2) the people who work on CentOS are VOLUNTEERS. They do not

[CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-07-26 Thread Lintula
The release announcement for CentOS-6.0 posted on CentOS-announce on Sun Jul 10 mentioned that: Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a Continous Release repository for 6.0 to bring all 6.1 and post 6.1 security updates to all 6.0 users, till such time as

Re: [CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-07-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/26/2011 10:08 AM, Lintula wrote: Are there still no security updates available for CentOS 6, or have I just managed to completely miss how to access them? if you run a yum update, you will see that all 6.0 updates ( except, yes firefox and xulrunner ) are all in place. The 6.1/ stuff