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 Post subject: CentOS 6
PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:27 pm 
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So it appears that CentOS 6 is actually rolling out to public mirror sites. When typically does linode.com make a new major release such as this available? Not looking to nail down an exact date, but is it typically days, weeks, months etc.
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If it was Ubuntu or Debian, a day or two. CentOS? It's a lot less popular, and Linode is an Ubuntu shop, so I dunno. The last Linode CentOS release announcement I see is for 5.0, and that was years ago. (5.6 is available currently, but it doesn't seem to have been announced.) FWIW, Fedora 15 was up in 2 days, and it's far less popular than CentOS.

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Besides, they're taking a page from the Duke Nukem Forever management team, it's still not really out.

It was supposed to rsync to mirrors on July 5th. It's now the 9th and not a single mirror has it, nor has the dev list announced it's actually released.

Linode should switch over to Scientific Linux. Less Drama, more timely releases.
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On the normal centos list we see that the mirrors are syncing; the code has been released.

SL6 doesn't do as rigorous testing as CentOS; some broken dependencies were in their release. SL6 is not a replacement for CentOS.

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When Fedora 15 came out they had it ready the next day.
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sweh wrote:
SL6 doesn't do as rigorous testing as CentOS

What's the source on that statement?

We've moved from CentOS 5.5 to SL6.0 with zero problems (so far - knock on wood), but if there's something published about SL please share.

//and I still can't find a mirror with CentOS 6.0
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You are 99.99% likely to be fine with SL6. However CentOS does a level of checking on version dependencies that SL6 doesn't do (see, for example, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cento ... 08389.html). For most people this won't be an issue.

C6 is internal sync'ing on the mirror network; not yet open to the public. But it is sync'ing, as they said it would. According to qaweb ( http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa ) it should start syncing to the externally visible machines today... with luck!

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There exists a directory on my local mirror, which is throwing an intentional-looking 403: http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/

You'll probably be able to tell when it goes live: http://narcissus.rc.rit.edu/chart/mono/ ... ename/hour

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http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/105#comment-115 with an update from Fri Jul 8th
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Update: 4:10PM PDT -- Mirrors are picking up the release. The mirrors will remain "bit-flipped" (read: locked from public access) until it's decided that the release has made it to a sufficient number of mirrors for release. Watch the CentOS-Announce mailing list and/or #centos IRC channel for more info on the release. Anything you download from mirrors before the announcement may not be the final packages, and you may put your system into a funky state -- use at your own risk.

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Full ISOs (and torrents!) now available @ http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.0/isos/

Huzzah!
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Excellent!
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can't wait to install it on my linode.
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 Post subject: CentOS 6
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I'm really looking forward to this release. Hopefully, the great Linode folks will have this available for us soon.
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And regarding 6.1:

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Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a
Continous Release repository for 6.0 to bring all 6.1 and post 6.1
security updates to all 6.0 users, till such time as CentOS-6.1 is
released itself. There will be more details about this posted within the
next 48 hours.


So, install away is my vote!
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Here's the announcement: http://www.mail-archive.com/centos-anno ... 05641.html
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