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 ch

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

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

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 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 y

[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

2011-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Lamar Owen 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 so it w

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 m

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Lamar Owen 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 compa

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% bin

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Akemi Yagi 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 use open sou

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> If absolute 100% binary compatibility is not required, but admin-level >>> compatibility and source-level compatibility with upstream EL is, >>> Scientific Linux is coveri

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 Baudier 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 tha

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 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 concrete use

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

2011-10-31 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 th

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 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 compatibili

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 mailin

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 http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

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 White 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 s

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 C

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

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.

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 i

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 t

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 >> 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

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 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 C

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 i

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

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 Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Craig White 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 knowledge base

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

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 no

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Johnny Hughes 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 > restrictions as they

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:56 AM, 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 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 >> wrote: >>> How is, say, being required to pay a license fee as a consequence different from losing something you have already contracted and paid

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.

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Marko Vojinovic 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 is a lo

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 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. O

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic 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 you anything >

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 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 proh

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Ned Slider 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 understand, Red Ha

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 > 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

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Lists 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 let > them ride out the

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 Owen 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 wa

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Lamar Owen 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 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 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

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

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 Owen 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 redistribut

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

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

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, readin

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 wrote: >>> Now, for version 6, they have: >>> >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) >

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 wrote: >>> Now, for version 6, they have: >>> >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) >

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Johnny Hughes 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 see any

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 >>> wrote: >>> > Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right > now, you updated to a point

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 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 see an e

[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 accoun

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 > 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 O

[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 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 an

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 >> 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 we

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Greene 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 the opinion of t

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Gary Greene
On 10/21/11 10:25 AM, "Johnny Hughes" wrote: > On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes 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

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 10:20 AM, "Les Mikesell" wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes 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 th

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 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 thei

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes 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 can NOT log

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 d

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 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 >> wrote: >> Johnny, chill. I don't blame him for being confused. Up until right now, you updated to a point release, then, over

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 > 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,

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 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,

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, 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 sudden, there

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 8:33 AM, Giles Coochey 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 assume that al

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? >> 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 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. >>

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 16:02, 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

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 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..

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... >>>

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..

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 upda

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

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

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 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

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 >> li

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 Walsh wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't ju

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/21/2011 01:07 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior piše: > > - "Steve Clark" escreveu: > >> De: "Steve Clark" >> Para: "CentOS mailing list" >> Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 21 de Outubro de 2011 9:00:00 (GMT-0300) Auto-Detected >&

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 N

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 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 (effective

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Steve Clark" escreveu: > De: "Steve Clark" > Para: "CentOS mailing list" > 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?

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 not

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 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 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, st

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 r

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 off

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-20 Thread m . roth
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. > > Last I saw was something in September say

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