On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 14:12 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Milan Keršláger wrote:
I wonder - you have rules and exceptions. Why do you simply do not put differencies ro the RELEASE-NOTES and join CentOS/RPMS and addons? Separate dir is worthless because you have yum and i586 kernels in CentOS/RPMS already. So this "rule" isn't working from the start already.
yum is there, because the architecture behind up2date (vulgo RHN) just isn't there, as it is *not* free software. The i586 kernel cannot go into a separate repository, as that won't be usable at install time -- yes, that is a change regarding to the stuff upstream delivers.
The i586 kernel was/is extra support ... it does not affect the i686 kernel. As Ralph pointed out, this is an exception to allow the i586 kernel to be used at start time.
I suggest distro and updates only.
It would be against the CentOS goals - look at www.centos.org.
Then think about Extras, Plus and Contrib. This is really too complicated.
It is not complicated ...
Extras - Items that add functionality and are not in upstream. This concept is quite popular and was added by Fedora as well in Fedora Extras.
CentOSPlus - Items that are upgrades to actual CentOS content. This repo is so that people who want max compatibility can disable this repo.
Contrib - we don't have any in CentOS-4 ... and probably will never have any (so this one is pretty much already dead).
Stuff which *really* differs from upstream -- meaning that it *overwrites* stuff which comes from upstream -- has to go to centosplus, if at all.
We have more than a million users and most want upstream compatibility and some want upgraded packages. Having Extras, CentOSPlus and Base/updates allows us to do both.
I am not going to fight with people about how we do this ... we have already made the decisions. We will continue doing things the way we have for the last 2 years. It has made us 'THE' premiere community enterprise linux distribution in the world ... and I see no reason to change the formula that got us here.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes