[CentOS-devel] RFC: CentOS 8 Repository Structure

[Karanbir Singh]

On 19/06/2019 19:42, Brian Stinson wrote:
>> >> I need to be able to run installs against a mirror, weeks and months
>> >> apart and arrive at the same payload installed exactly.

>> again, this maybe just a case of publishing a 2nd set of metadata rather
>> than retain the base rpm set, but we need to retain this functionality.

> Wouldn't pinning versions be better here if that's what you need? If you
> took that same kickstart over to a RHEL machine, you'd get the updates
> over there.

no, you would get a point release ( same as media .. ) if you wanted to.
I want to make sure we dont lose that ability in CentOS, so were going
to need to do this.

> 
> Seems to me like delivering the updates separately goes against our
> community recommendations anyways (i.e. the first thing we say in irc is
> "did you run yum/dnf update?").

we dont however, ask people to install arbitary untested trees.

Help me qualify the concern in an extra set of metadata to match point
release media ?

regards,

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