[CentOS-devel] Release notes of centos genericcloud image?

Chengwei Yang me at chengweiyang.cn
Tue Jun 20 05:17:20 UTC 2017


@Johnny,

Thank you very much for your declare, it's quite clear now for me.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:22:25AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 06/13/2017 02:37 AM, 杨成伟 wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > I found centos genericcloud image for openstack at
> > https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/obtain-images.html#centos
> > 
> > but I didn't found any release note for these images, so I didn't known
> > what's difference between genericcloud image and the official centos
> > release, e.g. centos 6.8, 7.2 release and etc.
> > 
> > Is there any wiki/doc/releasenote?
> 
> There is no real difference, the Generic Images are a point time image
> made from CentOS (either 6 or 7) for the end of the month for that date.
>  For example, CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1705.qcow2c is an image
> created with the latest packages from the end of May 2017, and is
> represented as 1705 (YYMM).
> 
> It is basically a minimal install (plus the cloud-init RPM and it's
> dependencies) that you can add things to with 'yum install' and it
> includes the base OS and the updates from May 31, 2017.  We do one every
> month.  It works just like a minimal install of CentOS if you did it
> from the installation ISOs. Here is a link:
> 
> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/
> 
> We also have vagrant box installs and atomic installs if you need those
> instead of VM images:
> 
> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/atomic/images/
> 
> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/vagrant/x86_64/images/
> 
> All of these images are just a different way to get base CentOS plus
> updates for the end of a given month.
> 
> We also create an ISO set for the same date here, if you prefer ISO
> installs to images:
> 
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/rolling/7/isos/x86_64/
> 
> Those are also point in time (end of the month) ISO sets that are base
> CentOS plus all updates at the time they are generated.
> 




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Thanks,
Chengwei
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