diff --git a/tests/z_cr_test/cr-test.sh b/tests/z_cr_test/cr-test.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# determining which packages we need to install from Base+Updates before trying the update against CR
+
+# generate local cache
+./0-common/00_qa_repo_config.sh
+yum --enablerepo=qa-cr list >/dev/null 2>&1 
+sqlite3 $(find /var/cache/yum/$(t_GetArch)/$(t_DistCheck)/cr/ -iname '*.sqlite*') 'select name from packages;' > /tmp/packages.list
+
+t_Log "Installing needed packages from Base"
+yum install -y -d0 $(cat /tmp/packages.list) 1>/dev/null
+t_CheckExitStatus $?
+
+t_Log "Updating packages with the CR repo"
+t_InstallPackage yum-presto
+yum install --enablerepo=qa-cr -y -d0 $(cat /tmp/packages.list) 
+t_CheckExitStatus $?
+
diff --git a/tests/z_cr_test/readme b/tests/z_cr_test/readme
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+This test is disabled by default, but can be launched from the CDevQA provision script 
+when we need to test the packages from the CR repository
+It will fetch packages names from the cr repo, install those packages from base+updates
+and then will try the update process.
+After that, all the usual functional tests will be launched