Johnny Hughes wrote on 09/23/2011 04:25 PM: ...
There is no need to upgrade anything. If you installed the package, you are on CR ... then and now.
The CentOS-CR repo points to /5/cr/ (which is 5.7 now and was 5.6 when the repo file was released).
It (/cr/) is currently empty because 5.7/os and 5.7/updates contain all the RPMS that are required to update from 5.6 (or any other version of CentOS).
When 5.8 is released, the RPMs that are part of 5.8 will get put into the /5.7/cr/ and allow people who are opted in to get the updates before the 5.8 release.
I think maybe putting the RPM in "extras", so it is easier to install is doable ... but not a huge issue.
In fact, I have put it there. centos-release-cr is now in extras.
You can install it from there once the mirrors sync it up.
The CR Wiki page (1) currently states:
"At present 22 September 2011 and later, it is appropriate proper to remove those packages thus: rpm -e --allmatches centos-release-cr and probably also wise, to prevent unwanted error noise, as the content in the file path referred to, has been retired and removed, as superseded by the point release update. "
Sounds like a more appropriate statement might be something like:
"The centos-release-cr package can safely be left in place for future use, and is now in the [extras] repository for ease of access. While the [cr] repository is empty it will effectively be ignored."
Phil
(1) http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR