[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Fri Oct 21 11:16:34 UTC 2011


Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto piše:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Steve Walsh<steve at nerdvana.net.au>  wrote:
>> Except.
>>
>> If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just
>> get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's
>> been built for 6.1 (effectively still in QA), plus some post 6.1 updates
>> (Again, still in QA). As far as I'm aware, there's now way to say "Just
>> give me the 6.0 updates you have" when using the cr/ repo.
>>
>> I am more than happy to be corrected on this operation of the cr repo
>> tho, as I've held off on updating boxes with the cr/ repo so as not to
>> get "untested" updates.

As far as I am aware, how I understood official explanation, packages 
that are introduced in CR repo already PASSED QA testing, but are in 
limbo because there are issues with building ISO.

>
> The best policy is to stay with 5.7.
> Why would anyone want to use 6.x with the issue?
> All my boxes are still 5.7.
>
> Newer version doesn't mean better software.

6.x is FAR too advanced for me to stay with 5.x. I am in no hurry, but I 
have my goal in replacing my systems one-by-one as time permits.


What interests me is where are centosplus kernels for 6.1/CR?
I only see them in Toracats testing repo: 
http://centos.toracat.org/kernel/centos6/centosplus-testing/


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