[CentOS] "Continious Repo" vs. 'normal' Centos-Base/Updates questions
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Sep 6 20:23:26 UTC 2011
At Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:07:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > I have some questions about the "Continious Repo".
> >
> > Does the "Continious Repo" replace the Centos-Base/Updates repo?
>
> No. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html
> . The CR repo is just a way to get faster access to updates that are
> the next point release.
Point releases land in the 'Base' repo. *Between* point releases there
would be updates in the Updates repo. That seems to have stopped for
CentOS 5. That is what I mean.
>
> > Is the "Continious Repo" in a standard place on the CentOS mirrors?
>
> Seems to be at least on some mirrors:
>
> http://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/5/cr/
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5/cr/
> Etc.
>
Yes, I just tried it on the mirror I sync with and it appears to work.
>
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