CentOS releases and the new and improved CentOS Vault.

[mattdm at mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:42:41AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Let me say it again ... moving from CentOS-4.0 to CentOS-4.1 is not
> changing to a new major release, it is just applying normally released
> updates ... except, at that point, there are new ISOs, with new hardware
> supported at install time.
> 
> So the CentOS release model is very much like the upstream one, if you
> run an update, you are at the latest versions for your release tree ...
> exactly like upstream.

This all makes perfect sense to me and sounds like a very reasonable scheme.
In fact, it's one of the reasons I was suprised by the lack of 4.1 src.rpms.
Which I know I keep harping about. :)


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