On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote:
> So I need to install from the 3.3 media
> And then update to the versions on the 3.4 media
> And then install the 3.4 updates?
No - just install 3.3 media and then update to 3.4.
> If I had 3.4 media I could just install off that. I am looking at a
> local mirror setup which does not require me to download new CDs every 3
> months.
as long as your 3.3 is a symlink to 3.4 the update will happen directly
to 3.4 - it will pull stuff from /os as well as /updates but everything is
there :)
> I still can't figure it out :( Every time I look things have changed.
>
>
> I also have another question which I will ask here.... it is about the
> x86_64 updates
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/
>
> There are i386 updates in there. Are these required?
That is better answered by one of the x86_64 maintainers.
> They are the same
> as the i386 versions. If so, I end up downloading them multiple times
> which is a pain :(
>
They should be hardlinks to the i386 rpms - which rsync will respect as
long as you use -H and only download once.
Regards
Lance
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