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? -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20191009/348d0d22/attachment-0006.html>