Robinson Tiemuqinke spake the following on 6/6/2007 5:37 PM: > Hi, > > I've just turned from Fedora Core to Centos 5, And > would like to know the 'official' way/mechanism to > upgrade a bunch of Centos 5 machines. > > My basic situation is: hundred of machines will be > installed with Centos 5.0 by means of kickstart. and > then the machines will always uses Centos 5.0 > kickstart images for initial installation, not Centos > 5.1, Centos 5.2, etc. > > So my questions are: > > 1, If the above possible? Since I take lot effort to > have hacked Centos 5.0 images to make it work for my > mixed environment, and I don't like to do the same > work every three months. > > 2, Based on Centos 5.0 initial installation, can I > upgrade the Centos 5.0 machines to Centos 5.1 level, > 5.2 level, and so on, by means of continuous online > upgrade but not reinstallation, right? > > 3, For continuous online upgrade, which repositories > should I download and keep updated daily? If the > extras/ and updates/ are enough? Or I have to download > addons/ centosplus/ fasttrack/ as well, or even isoes/ > and os/? > > 4, I've changed file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo > to use only os/ and updates/ repositories. and when it > is needed, I manually pull packages from other Centos > 5 repositories. Is this the 'official' way? or not? I > mean, should I better include repositories like > 'centosplus/'? > > Thanks a lot, sorry for too many questions as I am a > newbie to Centos. > This is even better; http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos