[CentOS-devel] CentOS-[56] Continous Release

Mon May 30 23:12:09 UTC 2011
Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>

On 30 May 2011 22:52, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:

> Johnny and I spoke about this a few days back and we think the best way
> to solve the problem around delayed srpms + waiting for isos, build and
> QA at the time of a point release is to get something like a 'Continous
> Release' repository going.

<snip>

> One solution: Export packages as they are built from the c[456]bsys into
> a repository that people can opt into, that would allow them to get
> early access to packages.

That reads like a very good solution, to me.

I would certainly appreciate the updated packages that resolve
particular CVEs, whereas for plain bug-fixes I could wait.

Alan.