CentOS - Dec 2015 - Version numbering vis a vis CentOS and RHEL

On 12/07/2015 05:46 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at
karan.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/12/15 16:17, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>>>
>>> IRC is not a good choice for communicating with IT admins in a
large
>>> enterprise environment. It is usually blocked.
>>>
>>
>> Does google hangout work ? we might be able to also setup a phone dial
>> in setup
>>
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> 
> In my case, yes, Hangouts works.
> 
> However, in general, any time dependent method is a problem since
there's
> probably some fire to be put out at any given hour.
> 
> I, and I suspect others, would prefer asynchronous communications so we can
> contribute when we have time.
> 
Hi Matthew,

your concerns caught my attention. We are maintaining a good amount of
Linux servers, both RHEL and CentOS, and always used our own numbering
scheme in form of major.minor.patchset, where the patchset is a
sequential number telling how many times we generated the patchset, like
5.11.5, 6.7.2 and so on.

AFAIK, the 7(1503) format is used only on the websites, and internally
CentOS uses 7.1.1503. Do you see this as an issue? In that case, simply
ignore the build number in your scripts and use major.minor only as before.

Just my 2 cents...

Best regards
Zdenek Sedlak
Infrastructure Architect

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Zdenek Sedlak wrote:
> AFAIK, the 7(1503) format is used only on the websites, and internally
> CentOS uses 7.1.1503. Do you see this as an issue?
Yes. It confuses humans. There have been a bunch of examples given of
how it confuses humans. A simple fix for this human issue is to use
7.1.1503 on the website, here on the mailing list, etc.

-- greg

On Dec 7, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com>
wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Zdenek Sedlak wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK, the 7(1503) format is used only on the websites, and internally
>> CentOS uses 7.1.1503. Do you see this as an issue?
> 
> Yes. It confuses humans. There have been a bunch of examples given of
> how it confuses humans. A simple fix for this human issue is to use
> 7.1.1503 on the website, here on the mailing list, etc.
And then we?re right back in the same old boat: With every new release, the same
old thread will pop up, ?How do I make my servers stay on CentOS 7.1??

Give up on the point release idea.  It?s CentOS 7; there is no CentOS 7.1.  The
only reason there?s a YYMM part is that it?s a media respin.  Best ignore that
wherever practical.