On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a > bunch of deployed machines running that OS. > > (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get > "un-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes. Until the > last one dies, we need test and build VMs around to service them.) > > I have the CentOS 3.9 *.iso files plus a local cache of RPMs against 3.9 > that is probably incomplete relative to the vault[*]. > > It seems wasteful to install the last published version of the OS, then > scp over my local update RPMs, freshen from those, *then* check with the > vault for yet more updates. > > What I'm hoping for is some way to get a "CentOS 3.10", being 3.9 with > the vault updates directory contents merged in. > > Is there a straightforward way to do that, or is schlepping around > folders full of RPMs actually the best way to go? > > > [*] http://vault.centos.org/3.9/updates/i386/RPMS/ If I needed to do this, I would mirror the 3.9/os/ and 3.9/updates/ directory (and others if you need them) Then I would create my directory as well in the same tree or even put my files in 3.9/updates/ as we are no longer putting files there anyway. Then I would rerun createrepo on the updates/i386 and updates/x86_64 directories and do network installs and run updates.
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