Hi,

On 07/11/2012 03:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I'm perhaps being unclear, An announcemenbt that goes out at the same
> time as the release itself is not helpful. They've selected as a

Mirrors know about the upcoming release well in advance - remember that
we seed in excess of 1200 external non .centos.org mirrors before a
release. We, CentOS, 'announce' when users can do a yum update. If you
follow any of the routes where upcoming release work is being
documented, you would have known about the upcoming release well in advance.

> matter of policy not to announce pending releases: it drove me nuts,
> and and is one of the contributing reasons to my switch to Scientific
> Linux.

> Scientific Linux's very effective "rolling" updates for components,
> before a new release is published, has  been very, very helpful to me
> in my personal research work building new packages. I'm not doing a
> panicky, unplanned rebuild of my packages for what is an unplanned and
> unexpected release with hundreds of updated components: I can keep my
> testing environments up to date before the release.

So, run a staged local repo, and dont deploy from upstream to production
on the fly. Its what pretty much everyone does.

- KB

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