On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:49 +0200, Petr Kl?ma wrote:
> >
> >
> > When a new update set is released (ie 4.1, 3.5, etc.), only the latest
> > [base] and [updates] are included in the main tree.
> >
> > Taken together, the base and updates will be the latest version.
> >
> > If you install from old media (3.3, 4.0) then you need to have [base]
> > and [updates] in your yum configuration.
> >
> > (or get the 4.1 ISOs to use as your [base])
> >
>
> So I can yust say
>
> IT IS WRONG
>
Wrong or Right is not relevant
it is what it is
CentOS has been doing things the same way since it's inception ...
> there were a lot of talks about it here:
>
> When you install CentOS x.0 and you run "yum update" you get finaly
> lates CentOS X.Y ...
>
> CentOS X.4 is CentOS X.0 + all released updates ...
>
>
> and from your answer it seems it is gone
> CentOS 4.1 have diferent versions of SW then CentOS 4.0 + updates
>
>
> I know CentOS depend on RH releases but presented strategy is brain dead
>
> I have several servers with fixed setup and I have local mirror.
> Now it seems I have to mirror not only "updates" but "updates" and "base".
>
> Before half a year there was talk about high bandwith, so lets download
> all the stuff.
If you want to have a local mirror ... then you need to
mirror /centos/4/
it will always be up2date
This is the same with CentOS 3 and it is absolutely not a change to the
way we have been doing things for almost 2 years
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