[CentOS] repositories

Sam Drinkard sam at wa4phy.net
Wed Nov 2 00:17:56 UTC 2005


Johnny Hughes wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:50 -0800, Steven Vishoot wrote:
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>>--- Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:
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>>>I think perhaps I missed something in some
>>>discussions over the last 
>>>week or so..  I was reminded last night that the
>>>repository for CentOS 
>>>4.1 had been moved to "vault" .whatever ..  Is that
>>>correct?  What 
>>>should I have in the
>>>/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo ?
>>>
>>>For future reference, is there a document that gets
>>>updated when the 
>>>base repository changes?
>>>
>>>Thanks..
>>>
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>>>Snowman
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>>sam,
>>
>>if i remember right/know what you have in the yum conf
>>is ok all they do is put a link to the new directory
>>on centos and the mirrors so it will not break anyone
>>yum  config files.
>>
>>Steven
>> 
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>This is correct ... you don't have to do anything.   The standard
>CentOS-Base.repo points to:
>
>http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>
>(and updates, extras, addons, etc. for the other repos)
>
>
>The $releasever is tied to the package centos-release ... but it always
>stays at 3 for CentOS-3.x and 4 for CentOS-4.x
>
>We always will point <http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/>  or
><http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/> to the latest tree for 3.x or 4.x
>so that you do not have to do anything, other than use a default centos
>update method {yum,up2date,apt}, and do and update ... then you have all
>the latest updates.
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Thanks for the info guys..  I know it worked yesterday or day before, 
and even dag's worked last night, something that had not worked for over 
a week.

-- 
Snowman




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