[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Sat Jun 21 11:33:35 UTC 2014
Philip Mather <phil at philipmather.me.uk>

>
> So in summary : I think we should continue to use CentOS-7/Final as the
> main distro that everyone runs, and use the 7.YYMM to indicate the isos
> set, with metadata inside the installed machine still reporting whatever
> rhel point release it originated or maps to. Everything that has
> happened in the past, stays intact - except the ISOS release is
> announced as '7 1406 - rebuilt from RHEL 7.0 sources'.
>

Fairly lost now, doesn't take much I'll grant but there we go.

In all the organisations I've ever worked at we've kept our own mirrors of
each X.Y directory/step and then at some places kept snapshots of those per
month by postfixing them in spacewalk with YYYYMM when cloning channels via
cron job.

Just referring to CentOS 5, 6 or 7 without the .Y is so vague as to be
meaningless in any technical or patching discussion.

-- 
Regards,
   Phil
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