On 09/15/2011 12:34 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Am 15.09.2011 03:13, schrieb Ben Galliart:
Following the strong recommendation on the CentOS-announce mailing list, we had added the centos-release-cr package to our kickstart for PXE based installs. Since the release of 5.7, this kickstart fails since the centos-release-cr package can no longer be found.
Given that there is a 5.7/cr directory, it appears the plans include having CR being an on-going convention rather than a on-time thing just for 5.7. If I understand this correctly that CR will be used again once upstream releases 5.8, then I would like to be able to leave centos-release-cr as part of my kickstart so it is already configured for the next batch of CR updates.
Is it possible to add centos-release-cr to the 5.7/cr sometime soon?
The centos-cr repository should only be unsed during transition phase from one minor to another. The package will be removed once the next minor is release, and re-appear on next transition. (hope I said it right, Karan :))
This was the first approach but it was changed. The implemented approach is for /cr to remain in place, the repository links from the repo definition will point to the new URL automatically. However the repository will be populated only during the transition phase of a new minor release ( i.e for instance after RHEL 5.8 is out but before CentOS 5.8 is released ).
So the cr release package is not meant to be included in kickstart by default.
that is true. It is useful only during the transitional phase between RHEL's launch of a new dot release and CentOS catching up.