[CentOS] RHEL 7.3 released

Fri Nov 4 13:14:21 UTC 2016
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 11/04/2016 04:38 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
> > As a heads up RHEL 7.3 is released:
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> 1.  Is CentOS-7.3 done yet?  Answer:  NO!
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> And it is NOT CentOS-7.3 .. it is CentOS-7 (1611) based on RHEL-7.3
> Sources.  The main tree will be labeled '7.3.1611' on the mirrors (along
> side 7.0.1406 and 7.1.1503, and 7.2.1511, all of which are already there)
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Obligatory objection to this version numbering scheme:

Deviating from RHEL in such a basic way is crazy, dumb, stupid, annoying,
wrong, etc, etc.

There, done.


2.  When will it be done?
>   a.  Short Answer:  No idea :) (when it is done!)
>
>   b.  Long Answer:  We normally have CR out 7-14 days after a RHEL-7
> release.  We normally have the full tree and ISOs out 14-28 days after
> the CR is out.
>
> Complicating this particular release, we have our annual CentOS Board
> Meeting (face to face) in Paris next week and I get on airplane(s) from
> Texas to Paris on Monday 9/7/2016, so there will be one full wasted day
> there.  Obviously the rest of the team will also be traveling to the
> meeting as well.
>
> I will try to tweet updates (@JohnnyCentOS) and post updates here
> throughout the build period.
>
> Currently we are building gcc/glibc and modifying the packages that need
> mods and calculating the build order for the SRPM package set.  There
> seem to be 602 SRPMs that need to be rebuilt on first look.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
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Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu