Време: 09/28/2011 10:31 AM, Xavier Bachelot пише: > On 09/23/2011 10:25 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/22/2011 08:16 PM, Ben Galliart wrote: >>> On 09/17/2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> >>>> Now back to the question on hand, centos-release-cr in 5.7.. >>> >>>> Perhaps the best place for the centos-release-cr is in the updates/ >>>> repo, rather than the /cr/ repo, since that way it would further reduce >>>> the barrier for people to opt-in, a simple 'yum install >>>> centos-releae-cr' would get them on the track, and keep them there till >>>> such time as they want to opt-out. >>> >>> Is there any ETA as to when this could be done or at least decided on? >> >> There is no need to upgrade anything. If you installed the package, you >> are on CR ... then and now. >> >> The CentOS-CR repo points to /5/cr/ (which is 5.7 now and was 5.6 when >> the repo file was released). >> >> It (/cr/) is currently empty because 5.7/os and 5.7/updates contain all >> the RPMS that are required to update from 5.6 (or any other version of >> CentOS). >> >> When 5.8 is released, the RPMs that are part of 5.8 will get put into >> the /5.7/cr/ and allow people who are opted in to get the updates before >> the 5.8 release. >> >> I think maybe putting the RPM in "extras", so it is easier to install is >> doable ... but not a huge issue. >> >> In fact, I have put it there. centos-release-cr is now in extras. >> > What's the reasoning for putting centos-release-cr in the extras repo ? > Imho, the package would fit better in either the updates or cr > repositories (with a preference for the later), because these 2 repos > allows to get upstream updates and only that, while extras carries a lot > of packages not coming from upstream. Providing a repository yum > configuration from within said repository is quite usual for other repos > and it looks strange to have to use one repo to get the conf for another. > Base repos must reflect what upstream is publishing. Thus, any extra packages must go elswhere. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant