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

[me at tdiehl.org]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> On 06/21/2011 02:52 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> Will centos-release-5-7.0.i386.rpm delete "centos-CR.repo" file in *any*
>> case, or are there possibilities that "centos-CR.repo" somehow survives?
>>
>> If it's name is changed by accident, CR repository will stay enabled.
>> Can that affect 5.7 repository in any way by like dist-sync but in the
>> opposite direction 5.7 ->  5.6/CR?
>
> yes, local edits will mean that the best we can do is have the file be
> moved to .rpmsave - but that would in turn cause the .repo to get disabled.
>
> in either way, once 5.7/os and 5.7/updates are in place, and the /5/
> link moves from 5.6 -> 5.7, the only packages in CR would be the
> centos-release rpm from 5.7. The other packages will be moved. If we
> decide to go down the workflow mentioned above in this thread.

If you are going to do this I would like to request that the srpms for the
centos-release package are released at the same time as the distro. I use
custom repos for my machines and rebuild the centos-release package with a
higher NVR so that all of my machines pull from my repos. This gets broken
every time a new update comes out and updates the centos-release package. In
the recent past the centos-release srpm has been MIA for some period of time
after the distro release.

Also, would the CR repo be accessible via rsync?

Regards,

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