All of this is good feedback, lets take this on board and see how we can
make that text clearer!
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:03:10 +0000:
As you see from quite a few inquiries over the last days that parapgraph is
*easily* misread. Don't take it personal ;-)
Apart from those questions from people who didn't read it at all there a
several questions about the content that all go in the same direction or
simply don't understand it.
you can still read the version from before my change - and even there it
clearly states that you need to change yum configs etc to make changes
to the repos your system sees.
No, it says "manually telling yum to do so" which could just mean "edit
that release file!" in this context. Beat me and others, but that's what we
read in it.
There is no mention or indication to
anything requiring a change in the redhat-release file.
I just re-read the paragraph again carefully and I think it is the first
sentence that creates the confusion. It says "for a period of time next to
the latest version of the 5 series" one can wonder about a minute what this
really means) and then at the end it says "and you will not move to a newer
release without ...". This *seems* to indicate that if the release file
contains "5.1" yum is going to provide updates for 5.1 and stop with
updating when 5.2 comes out. And you would either have to set it to 5.2 or
5 to continue with updating. Especially that "newer release" seems to
indicatethis.
As I read it now what actually is going to happen is that upstream
*branches* beginning with 5.1 to 5.1.1, 5.1.2 etc. and they will keep
providing updates for 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and the "main" 5 stream until the main
stream support cycle ends. But this won't be determined of the release
file, it's only an indicator.
thats mostly correct, except for the fact that there will be only 3
releases in any branch, so while /5/ will continue to be supported for
the 7 years + that a EL version is, the 5.1 will only exist for 18
months, after which, your machine is looking at orphan repos ( or maybe
redhat will workout some cleaver way of bringing the machine back upto
/5/ - which would be quite drastic and mostly a bad idea , since the
package change set from 5.1 to 5.4 ( which is what /5/ will be at the
time ) - could be quite large.
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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