I have some questions about the "Continious Repo".
Does the "Continious Repo" replace the Centos-Base/Updates repo?
Is the "Continious Repo" in a standard place on the CentOS mirrors? Ie. can I just add another line to my rsync script to get this repo? It is not possible for me to just update directly off the net (I have a slow and unreliable network connection)
If I cannot rsync from a secondary mirror, is it possible / allowed to rsync from mirror.centos.org? If so, what is the proper rsync URL?
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I have some questions about the "Continious Repo".
Does the "Continious Repo" replace the Centos-Base/Updates repo?
No. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html . The CR repo is just a way to get faster access to updates that are the next point release.
Is the "Continious Repo" in a standard place on the CentOS mirrors?
Seems to be at least on some mirrors:
http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/5/cr/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5/cr/ Etc.
At Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:07:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I have some questions about the "Continious Repo".
Does the "Continious Repo" replace the Centos-Base/Updates repo?
No. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html . The CR repo is just a way to get faster access to updates that are the next point release.
Point releases land in the 'Base' repo. *Between* point releases there would be updates in the Updates repo. That seems to have stopped for CentOS 5. That is what I mean.
Is the "Continious Repo" in a standard place on the CentOS mirrors?
Seems to be at least on some mirrors:
http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/5/cr/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5/cr/ Etc.
Yes, I just tried it on the mirror I sync with and it appears to work.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:07:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I have some questions about the "Continious Repo".
Does the "Continious Repo" replace the Centos-Base/Updates repo?
No. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html . The CR repo is just a way to get faster access to updates that are the next point release.
Point releases land in the 'Base' repo. *Between* point releases there would be updates in the Updates repo. That seems to have stopped for CentOS 5. That is what I mean.
Because once upstream releases the point release all updates are against the new point release. CR is a temporary way of getting the next point release out before the ISOs are finished.. As the announcement states, when CentOS 5.7 is released, the CR repo will be emptied, because all those packages will be part of CentOS 5.7.
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As the announcement states, when CentOS 5.7 is released, the CR repo will be emptied, because all those packages will be part of CentOS 5.7.
=== According to the September 7th tweet on Karanbir's Twitter page[1], CentOS 5.7 should be out in the next 2 to 3 days! Yea!
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