[CentOS-devel] Latest builds are now online 2014-06-25_build 4

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/25/2014 05:39 PM, Morten Stevens wrote:
> 2014-06-25 17:50 GMT+02:00 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>:
> 
>> Note: this tree now has a centos-release that implements the scope of
>> change we were talking about in the numbering thread. I went through
>> quite a few permutations and what we have here seems like the best
>> middle ground to be on. I am also going to try and circle back to some
>> of the RH folks to make sure they are ok with how we message around
>> where the CentOS Linux release is built from.
> 
> This change is not the majority of the community.
> 
> # rpm -q centos-release
> centos-release-7-1406.el7.centos.0.4.x86_64
> 
> 7-1406 looks confusing... Is it possible to remove the YYMM section
> from centos-release rpm? All other Red Hat projects like Fedora
> doesn't use this strange release numbering. 1406 sounds like an Ubuntu
> release...

The actual rpm name isnt very different from what we have on CentOS-6,
we need the last few digits for build/rebuild in testing work. but we
could potentially drop those.

> 
> Overall, it's a rebuilt of RHEL 7.0. Why not call it CentOS 7.0?

And this message is quite clearly communicated in lsb_release -a; isnt it ?


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