Johnny Hughes wrote:
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> Wrong or Right is not relevant
It may not be wrong, but I think is is not good... or at least, it could
be better.
>
> it is what it is
>
> CentOS has been doing things the same way since it's inception ...
CentOS-3 & CentOS-4 do this.
CentOS-2 & RedHat just keep putting updates in the updates. It does not
matter what you install from, all updates is always completely up to date.
I would like to see CentOS 3 & 4 change to the CentOS-2/RedHat approach.
I have gathered some thoughts on this and related issues here:
http://www.byteclub.net/wiki/index.php?title=Manage_RPM_based_updates
John.
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>>there were a lot of talks about it here:
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>>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 ...
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>>and from your answer it seems it is gone
>>CentOS 4.1 have diferent versions of SW then CentOS 4.0 + updates
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>>I know CentOS depend on RH releases but presented strategy is brain dead
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>>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.
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> If you want to have a local mirror ... then you need to
> mirror /centos/4/
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> 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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Swinburne University of Technology
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