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!
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