On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:47 -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, MJang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > So the packages you see in CentOS are generally some short number of
> > weeks behind. If there's a critical update, you should be able to pull
> > the source code packages from ftp.redhat.com and build them as needed.
> > But that takes time too.
> >
> 
> Well I run both.  Security updates from Red Hat are normally available
> within hours for CentOS.
> The CentOS team follows the cert notices for Red Hat and act.
> Updates that are not published via update e-mails show up within a day or two 
> of
> Red Hat positing the source rpm on the Web Site.  Now a release, minor
> or otherwise does
> take time to build and test new images - 4 to 6 weeks.
> 
Thanks for the info, I'm glad to hear that CentOS is so timely!

Mike

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