On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 15:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I don't really understand the function of this repository, or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository?
Because there is no "standard repository" yet. These RPMs are from the next version (6.1 as we write this) which has not been published yet. CR is just a way to keep up with updates while they work on publishing Centos 6.1.
I've read the various responses, and am not really convinced. It seems to me the developers are just making more work for themselves. Of course that is their prerogative ...
---- the various responses seemed to cloud the reasoning more than clarified it and I guess it would be more reasonable to point you to the official CentOS reasoning...
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
Upstream has their 'fast track' and I gather that this mirrors (or at least attempts to mirror) the upstream methods (with some good reasoning).
Craig