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'''Note 1:''': In some instances, centos upstream packages found in smetest and released by us do not show in yum updates notifications on servers in the field. This is because centos has released these packages before we do. We have centos repositories enabled as well as our repositories. We house all the packages necessary for the distro in our repositories. If we ever wanted to disable centos repostories we could do so and still continue to have people with functioning systems and receiving updates.  It doesn't hurt (most of the time) to have the centos repositories enabled on servers in the field.  It just makes systems get updates to upstream packages quicker.  We really should be putting anything that people are able to pull from centos into smeupdates as soon as possible. (Shad)  

'''Note 1:''': In some instances, centos upstream packages found in smetest and released by us do not show in yum updates notifications on servers in the field. This is because centos has released these packages before we do. We have centos repositories enabled as well as our repositories. We house all the packages necessary for the distro in our repositories. If we ever wanted to disable centos repostories we could do so and still continue to have people with functioning systems and receiving updates.  It doesn't hurt (most of the time) to have the centos repositories enabled on servers in the field.  It just makes systems get updates to upstream packages quicker.  We really should be putting anything that people are able to pull from centos into smeupdates as soon as possible. (Shad)  

'''Note 2:''' Some packages found in smetest belong to smeaddons.  If it isn't part of the distro then it doesn't go in smeupdates-testing.  smeaddons is just like smecontribs but contains package that were necessary to aid upgrading from 7 to 8.  They should be on a similar release schedule to what smecontribs would be.  <span style="color: red;">To be confirmed: where to move packages belonging in smeaddons? AND who is responsible for the release of smecontribs related packages (eg unrar)?</span>

'''Note 2:''' Some packages found in smetest belong to smeaddons.  If it isn't part of the distro then it doesn't go in smeupdates-testing.  smeaddons is just like smecontribs but contains package that were necessary to aid upgrading from 7 to 8.  They should be on a similar release schedule to what smecontribs would be.  <span style="color: red;">To be confirmed: where to move new packages associated with smeaddons? AND who is responsible for the release of smecontribs related packages (eg unrar)?</span>

==ABOUT THE MIRRORS==

==ABOUT THE MIRRORS==