[CentOS] CentOS 3.3 is gone
John Newbigin
jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Fri Apr 22 03:45:09 UTC 2005
Lance Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote:
>
>
>>Now I can point my yum config at the 3 updates directory (which I have
>>mirrored locally) but there are required patches which are not in there!
>>
>>I know that the patches are in 3.4 base but I don't want to download
>>that. All I want is the changes from 3.3 to 3.4. If these were in the
>>3 updates then I would be fine.... but they are not :(
>
>
> Well a repo that contains just the modified files in base between the
> versions is possible - but there would be a lot of files - iirc about 150
> from 3.3 - 3.4 and 90 from 3.4 -> 3.5, and of course all the big files are
> there - kernel, openoffice, glibc etc
Many of these updates are the same package, so the old versions will not
need to be kept. There will be a lot of files, but that is the point,
all the files will be together.
>
> Maybe it would not need to have the ones that have been 3.3 updates ??
>
> But it could easily be produced if it is of general interest - and could
> be done with hardlinks so as not to take any mirror space.
This is what I am after :)
I am willing to help get this set up if there is anything I can do. I
can certainly test.
John.
>
> Lance
>
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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
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