On 11/01/2011 09:15 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi guys,
We are still in the early days of CentOS-6, and perhaps a change in policy at this time might be acceptable. I'd like to propose moving the CR repo into the mainline repos. So the change I'm proposing is :
to have a /6/ release that is always updated.
to have the /6.X/ releases that are contained to within that point release
what this means is that /6/ will point at the most recent release of 6.X/ for the os/ & isos/ repo. The other repos would be local to the /6/ symlink, and will be always updated ( and stay that way ).
there is going to be quite a lot of implications backend / mirror side that we will need to work out, but its effort + pain as a one off, for what can be a major improvement in the user experience.
I am absolutely in favor of a "continuous release" CentOS 6 that's permanent. For a lot of CentOS users, I think there's no real advantage to holding back between minor versions and this avoids the need for users to knowingly opt-in to retain access to constant security updates.
We don't really need updated media since our kickstart files always just pull in the updates repo (and now CR also). Updated media as a slower process in the background is fine with my company.
As a mirror we certainly have the space to do this. I would hope this can be done with hard-linking to reduce the space demands on others where space is more of an issue.