Bill Medland wrote: > I've just received a "Welcome to Red Hat Advisor" email. It > talks about a RHEL3U5 Beta and RHEL4U1 Beta. > > I was under the impression (including based on a reply I think I > got on this list) that the updates were merely a repackaging of > the previous update plus all rpms upgraded since that time. > Thus there would be no difference between installing an early > update plus running up2date as opposed to installing the latest > update. > > Mentioning a beta seems to suggest that the product being beta-ed > is something more that simply a repackaging. > > Is Red Hat about to confuse things or is there some other reason > for releasing betas of updates? I've not read the "Welcome to Red Hat Advisor" email....but things haven't changed at all at Red Hat. There has always been a beta release period for the next update. For example, they have just sent out the notice for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 Availability Announcement". Prior to that, there was a beta period for the community to test Update 5. Sometime in the not to distant future there will be a RHELv3_U6 Beta available...and after testing/verification it will be "released". And, yes, the beta (and the update release) is not simply "repackaging". I guess you can call it "bug/security fix" rollup. -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Ford Prefect in "Mostly Harmless". -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
