[CentOS] "Continious Repo" vs. 'normal' Centos-Base/Updates questions
William Hooper
whooperhsd at gmail.comTue Sep 6 20:36:08 UTC 2011
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > 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. Because once upstream releases the point release all updates are against the new point release. CR is a temporary way of getting the next point release out before the ISOs are finished.. As the announcement states, when CentOS 5.7 is released, the CR repo will be emptied, because all those packages will be part of CentOS 5.7. -- William Hooper
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