[CentOS-devel] CR repo in CentOS 8

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:54 PM Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:36 AM Trevor Hemsley <
> trevor.hemsley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/10/2019 18:22, Lance Albertson wrote:
>>
>> I see that CentOS-CR.repo is included with the centos-release package,
>> however there is no CR repo to be found at the location it has at the base
>> url:
>>
>> [cr]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - cr
>> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$releasever/cr/$basearch/os/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> enabled=1
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
>>
>> $ dnf repolist
>> CentOS-8 - AppStream
>>               173 kB/s | 5.6 MB     00:33
>> CentOS-8 - Base
>>              976 kB/s | 5.3 MB     00:05
>> CentOS-8 - cr
>>              222  B/s | 239  B     00:01
>> Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'cr'
>>
>> My assumption was that the AppStream repo was going to replace the CR
>> repo, is that correct? I'm wondering if that repo file was added
>> accidentally?
>>
>>
>>
>> No. The CR repo is only used at point release time. It's used to contain
>> the next CentOS point release in the interval between the RHEL point
>> release coming out and the GA release of the equivalent CentOS version a
>> few weeks later. It's designed to allow people to get access to the
>> packages from the next point release while the team work on creating the
>> isos/images etc.
>>
>> It's so you don't have to wait until the isos are built etc. Means
>> everyone gets access to the content a few weeks earlier than otherwise.
>>
>
> If that's the case, should there at least be an empty repo that makes dnf
> happy until there's time there's actual content to be added there?
>


I thought it shipped disabled by default, and you explicitly had to enable
if you wanted packages before the next point release was fully released.
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