Hey, folks,
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my manager tells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
The *only* thing I can think of having real issues with is the newest PIV cards....
mark
On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hey, folks,
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my managertells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
- KB
Hi, Karanbir,
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, mymanager tells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
I know about CR - we were using it a year or so ago. I was just wondering if there was something you, or the team, were aware of something that might be an urgent reason to use the CR.
Otherwise, my manager and I'll discuss whether we need to enable it.
mark
On 01/11/2013 02:59 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I know about CR - we were using it a year or so ago. I was just wondering if there was something you, or the team, were aware of something that might be an urgent reason to use the CR.
There are a couple of security updates in there, apart from firefox/thunderbird none that are marked as Critical. So evaluate the list with what you use ( http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-January/thread.htm... )
I suspect most people wanting this will be people looking for the new features and the kernel enhancements. But consider the package list and evaluate what your site usage for those packages is.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/11/2013 02:59 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I know about CR - we were using it a year or so ago. I was just wondering if there was something you, or the team, were aware of something that might be an urgent reason to use the CR.
There are a couple of security updates in there, apart from firefox/thunderbird none that are marked as Critical. So evaluate the list with what you use ( http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-January/thread.htm... )
AH! My manager and I were just talking, and firefox on 5 is something we need, given the critical rating. That right there tells me that I need to add/enable the CR repo, at least until the release.... <snip> Thanks!
mark
On 01/11/2013 08:49 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hey, folks,
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my managertells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
- KB
Or ... I can link it for you :)
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
Since this is fairly new, here goes ...
Basically, we have done the basic QA on these packages. They install, there is repo closure, they pass our test suite. They are the same packages that will be in the CentOS-5.9 release, unless we find errors and fix them.
If we do find errors and release new packages, then those packages will upgrade the applicable one that you got from CR.
There are 3 things not included ... CentOS-release, CentOS-release-notes, and anaconda. These 3 things and the new install images will be what is added to the full 5.9 release. We would expect that release to be done within a week from now.
Whether you install now or wait is up to you.
If you look here, you can see that some of the packages are security updates, but most are Bug fixes or Enhancements:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-January/thread.htm...
Its on all my CentOS-5 installs.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:09:28AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 01/11/2013 08:49 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hey, folks,
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my managertells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
- KB
Or ... I can link it for you :)
when using the yum priorities plugin, where should the CR repo be placed in the priority scheme?
when it is given no priority, I get no updates. when I set it at 3 (centos base, updates, addons, and extras are all set to 1, centosplus repos are set to 2 but disabled) I get no updates.
# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * updates: mirror.cogentco.com cr | 1.9 kB 00:00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished 424 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update
yet there appear to be a ton of things available in the CR repo.
Should the CR repo be set to a higher priority (lower number) than the base repos? If not, what am I overlooking here?
Since this is fairly new, here goes ...
Basically, we have done the basic QA on these packages. They install, there is repo closure, they pass our test suite. They are the same packages that will be in the CentOS-5.9 release, unless we find errors and fix them.
If we do find errors and release new packages, then those packages will upgrade the applicable one that you got from CR.
There are 3 things not included ... CentOS-release, CentOS-release-notes, and anaconda. These 3 things and the new install images will be what is added to the full 5.9 release. We would expect that release to be done within a week from now.
Whether you install now or wait is up to you.
If you look here, you can see that some of the packages are security updates, but most are Bug fixes or Enhancements:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2013-January/thread.htm...
Its on all my CentOS-5 installs.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 01/11/2013 02:19 PM, fred smith wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:09:28AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 01/11/2013 08:49 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Hey, folks,
I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my managertells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
- KB
Or ... I can link it for you :)
when using the yum priorities plugin, where should the CR repo be placed in the priority scheme?
when it is given no priority, I get no updates. when I set it at 3 (centos base, updates, addons, and extras are all set to 1, centosplus repos are set to 2 but disabled) I get no updates.
# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * updates: mirror.cogentco.com cr | 1.9 kB 00:00 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished 424 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update
yet there appear to be a ton of things available in the CR repo.
Should the CR repo be set to a higher priority (lower number) than the base repos? If not, what am I overlooking here?
The way the priority system works, the highest priority is 1.
If you want something to replace packages, it has to have the same or a higher priority (which is a lower numerical value).
So, if your OS repo priority is 1, you would have to set the CR repo's Priority to 1 as well to get it to replace packages from the OS repo.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:09:28AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Hello Johnny und Co,
For pushing out new releases, it would help download times a little bit if you would run "/usr/sbin/hardlink -v centos/5.8 centos/5.9" to hardlink all unchanged rpm packages before pushing this out to the CentOS mirror system.
(I know 5.8 will be deleted soon, so it doesn't help overall disk size. Space savings for 5.9 would be 9GB, same of course for new downloads of it for all mirrors.)
Thanks a lot for CentOS-5.9,
Florian La Roche
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