on 11/29/2007 2:20 PM Robinson Tiemuqinke spake the following:
--- Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
afaik, the updates directory contains the latest
updates to all packages
that have been updated since the original .0
release.
Thats not true, the <rel>/updates/ dir will only
contain updates
released from the time that the <rel>/os/ was
released. However, that is
not an issue since yum does not consider
repositories on their own, it
merges all data into one set and then selects
packages to update,
therefore packages from the <rel>/os/ repository get
included as well.
so, you really do want to stay with the /5/ release,
in order to keep
getting all the latest updates etc. and not use ( as
you pointed out
already ) the 5.1/ or 5.0/ directories.
- KB
The problem is whether there is a way to achieve the
following:
Continue to install machines with Centos 5.0(!!)
distro (not 5.1, 5.2, etc snapshots|subreleases), But
have .../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS|i386|x86_64}/
repositories|directories which contains updates since
5.0 to current level. This way I only need to feed yum
with two repositories: centos/5.0/os/ and
centos/5/updates/ -- some time will have local custom
repos as well, but that is another totally different
topic.
Currently I can not do it, because on Internet Centos
Mirror Sites, the centos/{4,5}/updates/ are in fact
symbolic links to
centos/{4,5}.<latest_update_snapshot_release>/updates/
and contains update RPMS ONLY SINCE the relase date
{4,5}.}.<latest_update_snapshot_release>. But what I
like to have is a accumulated updates repository since
{4,5}.0 release date.
I could try to emulate the effect by synchronizing
each update repository for previous subreleases, For
example, for Centos 4 series, sync updates RPMS for
4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 into one local repository
and feed it to yum.conf, then sync updates for 4.5
into another repository for yum, at last, feed the
repository of 4.0 base os to yum as well. Totally yum
has one base os 4.0 repo, two updates repos for
possible??consistent initial installation and upgrade
-- If it works, then there is no need to setup new
kickstart/pxe for each subrelease after the latter is
released.
Has any one done the above? If so, how is that
working? or there is no need to do do it because there
are accumulated updates repositories on Internet
Mirror Sites to sync from? Or because this is
impossible because each subrelease contains new
versions of packages/tools not in any updates/
repositories??
Thanks a lot.
--Robinson
But doesn't yum only install the newest update package anyway? You will just
take up space with updates you might not need unless you need to downgrade a
package, and you can't do that with yum. If I right now install CentOS 4 from
the 4.0 release CD's and yum update, I will basically have the same thing as
if I installed from the 4.5 CD's and ran yum update. But the updates will take
considerably longer. I am having trouble grasping your dilema. The biggest
difference in sub-releases are the install time tools and kernels that may
have been updated when the CD/DVD's are respun.
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