[CentOS-devel] Why not a fusion between CentOS and SL?

Thu Mar 24 20:18:06 UTC 2011
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 03/24/2011 05:52 PM, James Antill wrote:
>   Right. Personally, given that you aren't shipping the exact binaries
> that upstream ship, I would say that all CentOS builds should start with
> a .1 added to the end of release, and then increment that for any
> rebuilds you need to do. I'd also have the packages provide the upstream
> NEVR, as well.

We do that already, but it depends on what state its in and why there 
was a bump and if the package has made it to user machines. We never 
rebuild or push a package that will need to be considered with buildtime 
etc.

- KB