> 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 Currently CentOS declares longer lifetime for v. 3 and v. 4 than we do (they say: as long as Red Hat provides updates): we at CERN have been obliged to abort support for 64bit v. 3 release last December (...no manpower ..) ... If you refer to minor (point) releases, ie: 3.0X / 4.X : we could select (or maybe just interested sites could select) to provide updates for branches (X.Y / X.Y+1 / X.Y+2 ... etc) separately (we at CERN do not need/want this functionality actually ..) > > 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. We wouldn;t need to even do that: all rpms coming from RH are rebuilt by CentOS people already: some sites could just decide which go into which update repository. (ie: security update is for all X.Y(+n) branches, while bugfix/enhancement could be for X.Y+2 branch only) Cheers Jarek _ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _