[CentOS-devel] CentOS-[56] Continous Release

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/21/2011 04:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 02:02 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>>     We could then obsolte: that centos-release-CR rpm
>>> with the centos-release that comes down the road when the isos/ are in
>>> place and the new release announced.
>> I am not sure I get this part. Since the packages are not changed ( I
>> presume the NEVR remains the same when the packages are moved from CR to
>> "stable"), how would this "obsolete" process happen ? I am used to the
>> fedora / fedora epel "testing" phase which is basically
> so lets take an example:
> 5.6/os/centos-release-5-6.0.i386.rpm
> 5.6/os/<  has no centos-release rpm>
> 5.6/CR/updates/centos-release-CR-5-7.0.i386.rpm ( which only contains
> the repo definition for the CR repo )
>
> and when there is a 5.7 :
> 5.7/os/centos-release-5-7.0.i386.rpm ( with an Obsoletes:
> centos-release-CR<= 5-7.0; and drop a copy of this rpm into the 5.6/CR/
> repo as well.
>
> Would that work ?
>
I meant the packages themselves, not the centos-release.rpm. this one is 
trivial
my concern is the mechanism which would trigger reinstallation of 
packages which are modified between their existence in CR and the 
stable/updates phase