Jaroslaw Polok wrote: >> >> - CentOS doesn't like to let users "sit on a release". Now this might >> be changing since RedHat is finally letting users do that. But that >> might be a concern that several scientists have. You know, as well as >> I, that despite all explanations and reasoning, they don't want >> *anything* to change (and at the same time must have all the latest >> bleeding edge stuff). > >No they don't, but we at CERN do not give them the choice: >Once SLC X.Y+1 is released, yum repositories change from X.Y to new >one.. and everyone is updated immediately (ie: once per week). >(exception being computer center batch farms where we target to have >an update once every 3-4 weeks only in the future) > >.. surprisingly enough: We haven;t heard any complaints about that in >last 2.5 years .. I find it pretty hard to blame CentOS for that. As I understand it, CentOS is only mirroring their upstream source's behavior. That is, once enterprise linux X.Y+1 comes out, there are no more updates for X.Y. So your choice is to stop updating (and start being vulnerable) or apply updates (and be at X.Y+1). You can always keep a local snapshot of the final version of each X.Y release if you want to for private clusters, etc. Or are you just requesting a repository of each X.Y release? Dave Thompson UW-Madison