[CentOS] yum update problems
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Sat Oct 15 13:26:02 UTC 2005
William Warren wrote:
> I am curious. Could i just substitute the ftp for http? I like the
> releasever variable as it means that every time a new version comes out
> i don't have to go editing my conf file.
>
>> The best resolution for this often asked question is : use an ftp mirror.
>>
sure you can, $releasever and $basearch are always resolved in yum's
config files, for any type of url in the baseurl= field.
so you could have a
baseurl=ftp://ftp.somehost.come/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
- K
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