[CentOS-devel] Purpose of composes.centso.org?

Neal Gompa

ngompa13 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 11:12:00 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 6:56 AM redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel
<centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>
> I am curious about composes.centos.org and it's intended use case or guidance on what it should/can be used for.  If it is reasonable, I would like to try to write a dnf plugin to simplify using it for package rollbacks.  Is someone else already working on this?  Is there a better way to go about doing this?
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> Ultimately, I would like it so when submitting a bug about a regression, it is easy for the user to specify between what compose dates the regression first appeared.

This shouldn't be necessary since older packages are merged into the
repositories now:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-May/076839.html

The composes are mainly useful for getting older ISOs.



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