[CentOS-devel] RFC: CentOS 8 Repository Structure

On 24/06/2019 13:05, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 24/06/2019 12:42, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Would be indeed worth clarifying, as I was under the impression that
> Brian said the reverse with "all updates would land in BaseOS" and so
> BaseOS would be a moving target ...
> 
> @Brian : can we clarify once for all this ?
> 

2 diff things,

a) BaseOS will get all the content from a point release and all updates
will land in the same directory

b) we snapshot the repo metadata and publish it in addition to the
baseos repo ( what was called the kickstart repo ).

we can do both.

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