Troy Dawson 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). > This is one point I think we'll have a hard time with when talking to > some of the user communities. We'll have to come up with some > reasonable solution. Perhaps we could do something along the line of * mirroring base CentOS, * providing SL-style "tweak" RPM's in a separate YUM repository * providing site specific separate YUM repositories * maintaining selected releases longer than CentOS does We would only then be re-building RPM's for security updates on our selected releases for our longer maintenance window; but we could get out of the business of rebuilding the whole distribution and share that work with the CentOS folks.