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 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc