[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Fri Oct 21 18:35:06 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 12:39 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 10/21/2011 10:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
>>>> <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote:
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>>> Now, for version 6, they have:
>>>
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation FasTrack (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server FasTrack (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop FasTrack (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scalable File System (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancer (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node FasTrack (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Performance Network (v. 6)
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
>>>
>>> They have the same install groups with different packages based on the
>>> above groupings, so we have to do some kind of custom generation of the
>>> comps files to things work.
>>
>> Wait, are you saying that a given install group name installs different
>> packages, depending on the release name? I mean, if I were working on
>> the team, I'd build an Everything release group, and just have subsets,
>> based on which release group was chosen.
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> No what I mean is, there is an "install group" named "ha" (with a High
> Availability description) whose definition might contain 20 packages on
> the Server media set, 15 packages on Workstation media set, 8 packages
> on the Desktop Media set, and 50 packages on Resilient Storage media set.

Oy! And are those on different media? I mean, how many DVD's is RH
producing these days, and do you have to buy one or the other?
>
> CentOS only has one product ... so we need a compilation of the install
> information from all of the different media groups ... what you would
> have found in the AS type product of EL3.  Only now we have to build
> this compilation from all the component parts, or else we can not allow
> group type installations from within the installer.

Which is very appreciated. "Productization", making trying to build a
system harder.
>
> ha was one example, but "office programs" or "graphical internet" are
> other examples.

Right - I had to edit our perl ks.cgi, because they changed the name or
spelling of things like office, or gnome, or KDE....