[CentOS] 4.1 being dropped from mirrors
Aleksandar Milivojevic
alex at milivojevic.org
Thu Oct 20 12:55:42 UTC 2005
Lamar Owen wrote:
> Packs. "If you want Security Update X for your system, you must update to
> Service Pack Y" first type things; the RHEL setup can force the use of the
> updates sooner than Microsoft would dare, and the CentOS echo forces it
> within a week (unless I'm missing a way to tell yum "grab security updates,
> but leave the Quarterly alone for now").
Not really. You can always install individual updates only.
As for your second comment, you can disable base in CentOS.repo (or
whatever it is called) and leave only updates enabled. Around time of
switch between 4.n and 4.n+1 you would need to check erratas and
manually apply security fixes that were released as part of 4.n+1 (and
not as an update to any particular 4.n). However note that if an
security fix requires a particular version of package from 4.n+1, you
are hosed (however, you still don't need to install all updates from
4.n+1, you need only the required packages to satisfy dependencies). If
you have many systems, you might choose to create your own "updates"
repository and populate it only with security updates and their
dependencies (so you don't run in previously described problem). Then
make this repository public for the rest of the folks that would like
that functionality. If you are current with updates in your repo,
you'll become very popular guy ;-)
If you are gringing on this "manual" step, remember that if you had real
RHEL installed, you wouldn't really have this option at all. All Red
Hat has is an big pool that contains all updates since RHEL 4 was
initially released.
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