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

Tue Jun 21 13:25:29 UTC 2011
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 06/21/2011 04:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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
>> - packages are first pushed to a testing repo which is not enabled by
>> default on client computers
>> - after a) enough people test and validate a package or b) enough time
>> has passed since the package was pushed to the testing-repo  the package
>> can be moved to the stable repo
> Trick is that CentOS will not change NEVR or version number if they
> recompile package with diferent build environment. It could look exactly
> the same, size and all, but it would act differently.
>
> In Fedora/EPEL way, when you change anything you also change version
> number, but it is not so in RHEL rebuilds. version and NEVR *must* stay
> the same, even if correction is made. Hence the original problem in
> question, how to pass the info about rebuilded packages to yum.

you are 100% correct. hence my "how would this "obsolete" process 
happen?" question