On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:54 +1100, John Newbigin wrote:
> Lance Davis wrote:
>
>
> >
> > well in fact 3.4 will actually go to 3/ and we will be moving the old
> > repos for 3.1 & 3.3 to an old-updates directory that isnt mirrored.
> >
> > 3.1 & 3.3 will become symlinks to 3/ and anyone that updates will get 3.4
> >
> > centos-release will have version 3/ and epoch 2 to facilitate this
> > transition.
> >
> > This is to become dag compatible and to make updates easier.
> This is IMHO good news but before it happens, will there be an
> announcement so I can fix my rsync scripts?
>
> Also, can someone clarify what I need to do here:
> Lets say I have a few machines which have never been patched. Some 3.1,
> some 3.3 and some 3.4. Is there a single directory that I can point
> them all at to get all the patches that they all need?
>
It will be 3 ... or in yum.conf, $releasever ... like this:
http://whatever.xxx/xxx/centos/3/addons/$basearch
or
http://whatever.xxx/xxx/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch
from now on ... 3 will be the $releasever, and will be the latest
version.
