RE: [Xen-users] Xen branches

[Greg Woods <woods@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:01 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> 

>  what I see on my CentOS 5.5 boxes is 3.0.3 (plus
> patches and fixes from Red Hat).
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And is this safer than using 3.4.3 from Gitco? 

I never heard of Gitco so I have no way of knowing. I trust Red Hat to
keep security fixes in place and to keep Xen working as long as they
have committed to support RHEL 5 (at least another 4 years), and I trust
the CentOS people to bring those fixes forward as long as Red Hat keeps
producing them. My experience is that this normally happens in a fairly
timely manner, but that is by my definition of "timely" which is based
on our risk factors here which are bound to be different than yours.

You will have to decide for yourself whether you trust Gitco to do the
same. You seem to be looking for someone to say "this way is better",
but it likely won't happen. You have to evaluate it based on your own
needs and experience.

--Greg




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