Re: Trying to justify CentOS vs. RHEL

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Thanks for that quick response!  I guess I should have looked closer
through the wiki.  Much appreciated!


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 May 2013, "Bidwell, Christopher" <cbidwell@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > My question is what kind of time frame are we looking at when a
> > vulnerability (critical or high) is announced and a patch has been
> > released for RHEL does it get implemented into CentOS?
>
> >From the FAQ, http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General:
>
> > 2. How long after Red Hat publishes a fix does it take for CentOS to
> > publish a fix?
> >
> > Our goal is to have individual RPM packages available on the mirrors
> > within 72 hours of their release, and normally they are available
> > within 24 hours. Occasionally packages are delayed for various
> > reasons. On rare occasions packages may be built and pushed to the
> > mirrors but not available via yum. (This is because yum-arch has not
> > been run on the master mirror. This may happen when issues with
> > upstream packages are discovered shortly after their release, and if
> > releasing the package would break it's functionality.)
>
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