CentOS - Oct 2011 - CentOS-6.0 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository

I don't really understand the function of this repository,
or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository?

I read the outline at
<http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR>,
and added the repository on two CentOS machines.
On yum-updating some 450MB of updates were installed.
Both machines appear to be running perfectly well.

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Timothy Murphy writes:
> I don't really understand the function of this repository,
> or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository?

Because there is no "standard repository" yet. These RPMs are from the
next
version (6.1 as we write this) which has not been published yet. CR is just 
a way to keep up with updates while they work on publishing Centos 6.1.

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Vreme: 10/08/2011 02:34 PM, Timothy Murphy pi?e:
> I don't really understand the function of this repository,
> or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository?
>
> I read the outline at
> <http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR>,
> and added the repository on two CentOS machines.
> On yum-updating some 450MB of updates were installed.
> Both machines appear to be running perfectly well.
>
Every minor version is treated as upgrade, not update. If CR packages 
would be added to existing updates 6.0 repository, what would people who 
want ONLY 6.0 do? There are many other more compelling reasons, but even 
this one is enough.

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