On 03/31/2015 12:31 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 03/31/2015 09:53 AM, Ryan Qian wrote:
As a CentOs newbie, I'm not sure, will we still have CentOS 7.1 which derive from RHEL 7.1? or this is the new naming conversion for CentOS 7.
Thanks! -Ryan
That was going to be my question as well. According to http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-July/020393.html the convention (for the 7.0 release at least) says:
"Numbering
CentOS 7.0-1406 introduces a new numbering scheme that we want to further develop into the life of CentOS-7. The 0 component maps to the upstream realease, whose code this release is built from. The 1406 component indicates the monthstamp of the code included in the release ( in this case, June 2014 ). By using a monthstamp we are able to respin and reissue updated media for things like container and cloud images, that are regularly refreshed, while still retaining a connection to the base distro version."
I would have assumed that this release would be "7.1.1503", and the URL on at least one mirror has:
http://mirror.fdcservers.net/centos/7.1.1503/
Guess if that's the new convention, I'll need to keep my ISO files sorted out somehow, as this progression isn't intuitive:
CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503.iso
Please take a look at the "Archived Versions", and the Release Announcement:
They both tell you that 7 (1503) is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Sources. So, yes, this release, that you quoted in the Subject, is indeed exactly what you said.
And yes, this is how we are now numbering CentOS releases for 7 and greater.