On 10/19/05, BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> --- Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Just to let everyone know that the CentOS 4.1 tree will be dropped from
> > the mirrors shortly, since 4.2 has now been out for a week. If anyone
> > has their yum config's hardwired to point at 4.1 - those config's will
> > now stop working.
> >
> > The 4.1 repo's will be available at http://vault.centos.org/ once they
> > are removed from http://mirror.centos.org/ ( and all external mirrors ).
> >
> > If you wish to stay with 4.1, keep in mind that updates and security
> > fix's are no longer pushed out for 4.1, and therefore we recommend
> > everyone moves to 4.2, if you have not already done so.
> >
> > - K
> >
> > --
> > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
>
> I thought each release of Centos had a longer support life
> cycye than this.
>
> What then is the difference (in this respect) then between
> Centos and Fedora Core?
CentOS follows the upstream and CentOS 4 support is much longer than
Fedora Core. The upstream provider calls these updates and for
support updates have to be applied as released.
CentOS provides the ability to "freeze" at a .X that is not available
from the upstream provider. Since this is not provided upstream it
will not receive updates.
HTH
--
Leonard Isham, CISSP
Ostendo non ostento.
