On 08/16/2011 11:27 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/16/2011 08:45 AM, Christian Anthon wrote: >> what is the right way to deal with the new cr repository for centos 5 >> when you are running your own mirror. In particular the following >> statement I don't fully understand: > > The reason why we only have baseurl pointing to mirror.centos.org is > that we dont expect cr/ to be around for a long time. I think its a safe > assumption that 5.7 should be ready for release in a few days time from > here. Is it really worth the hassle to add and remove the repo just to get the packages a few days early? >> - Once 5.7 is released, the 5.6/cr/ repositories will be removed ( they >> will not be available on vault.centos.org ) > > The CR only contains rpms from the next-release, so once that release is > online we want to drop the CR/ completely and have everyone move over ( > via a yum update ) to using the new rpms in 5.7/; it also means that > there will be no continued updates to the 5.6/cr/ once 5.7 is around and > online. > > Let me know if any of that isnt very clear and I will try to explain in > more details What bugs me about this is the manual overhead for adding and removing the repo on the systems. I presume when TUV 5.8 gets released and I want to be up-to-date I have to add the CentOS cr repo again and then remove it when CentOS 5.8 is out? Why not create a repo "5cr" that can be enabled once and never be removed? Once 5.7 is out you can simply clear that repo on the server side which essentially means users will pick up the packages from the 5.7 release repo. Then once the 5.8 updates come in you can put them into the 5cr repo again starting a new rolling release cycle. That way people interested in the rolling release would only have to enable this only once on their systems and stay on this rolling release train until they deliberately deactivate the repo again. Regards, Dennis