[CentOS] Question on CR

Sat Sep 3 18:14:17 UTC 2011
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 09/03/2011 02:27 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> My best guess is that upstream is now 5.7 and bug fixes would be against
> 5.7, but since we're at 5.6 those fixes don't specifically apply, and so
> the cr is a temporary holding place for packages (and their dependencies)
> which would normally be in 5.7 but that need an earlier release (eg
> security).  In this way cr is an attempt to provide timely security
> patches while the new release is still being prepared and validated.


yes.

- KB