On 10/21/2011 06:36 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On 10/21/2011 06:16 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

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Vreme: 10/21/2011 12:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto piše:

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Steve Walshsteve@nerdvana.net.au wrote:

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Except.

If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's been built for 6.1 (effectively still in QA), plus some post 6.1 updates (Again, still in QA). As far as I'm aware, there's now way to say "Just give me the 6.0 updates you have" when using the cr/ repo.

I am more than happy to be corrected on this operation of the cr repo tho, as I've held off on updating boxes with the cr/ repo so as not to get "untested" updates.

As far as I am aware, how I understood official explanation, packages that are introduced in CR repo already PASSED QA testing, but are in limbo because there are issues with building ISO.

This is somewhat true ... there is some QA performed on the CR packages. There is "MORE" QA performed on them as part of the release process though. So, they are not "totally untested" ... just less tested than the main release.

Obviously that means there is an "increased chance" that the CR packages are not totally correct, as compared to released packages, because there is somewhat less QA at that (the CR) stage ... but they SHOULD be correct and they SHOULD work.

We added CR so that we can provide updates faster ... it is totally optional, but does provide more user choice. What to use is up to you. I personally "DO" use CR on the machines that I manage.

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The best policy is to stay with 5.7. Why would anyone want to use 6.x with the issue? All my boxes are still 5.7.

Newer version doesn't mean better software.

6.x is FAR too advanced for me to stay with 5.x. I am in no hurry, but I have my goal in replacing my systems one-by-one as time permits.

What interests me is where are centosplus kernels for 6.1/CR? I only see them in Toracats testing repo: http://centos.toracat.org/kernel/centos6/centosplus-testing/

we don't have a CR repo for centosplus ... and I do not see us creating one. We are building and testing the plus kernels too and they will be there on release of 6.1 ... or you can use the ones from toracat's repo.