On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > - Coordination of other repositories (e.g. EPEL) is based on the "version", > how does that work now? Exactly the same as it did before. Before you'd have a $maj.$min repo, which is the same as it is now. maj=7 min=1.1503 You can park it there and not suffer any problems as I understand it. At least that's what I've done with 7. So when 7.2 finally hits, it'll be maj=7 min=2.1512 > All of these things ran in parallel with the RHEL release cycle, and the > work could be done at the same time. That was the overriding philosophy of > CentOS, "we are a recompile of RHEL." Now, the impression is (rightly or > wrongly, it doesn't matter to me) CentOS is totally becoming a separate > Linux distro, and needs to be treated as such. And that has huge > implications for system administrators in a large environment. Huge. I don't see it as an issue. A partially updated (without touching CR) 7.1.X is equivalent to a partially update 7.1 RHEL. > There are answers to all these questions, but there is a lot of confusion > that's been generated by this seemingly cosmetic change in version numbers. > I've checked, and there was no,"We're considering creating this basic > difference from RHEL, how will this affect you?" on this list, or the > website, etc. From our viewpoint, it was sprung on us out of nowhere, and > now were being told "deal with it, or leave." To me, I'm not sure I get any issues or advantages from the new scheme, but I can't say it bothers me greatly. jh