[CentOS-devel] CR repo in CentOS 8

Wed Oct 9 17:53:53 UTC 2019
Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org>

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
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