When a new update set is released (ie 4.1, 3.5, etc.), only the latest [base] and [updates] are included in the main tree.
Taken together, the base and updates will be the latest version.
If you install from old media (3.3, 4.0) then you need to have [base] and [updates] in your yum configuration.
(or get the 4.1 ISOs to use as your [base])
So I can yust say
IT IS WRONG
there were a lot of talks about it here:
When you install CentOS x.0 and you run "yum update" you get finaly lates CentOS X.Y ...
CentOS X.4 is CentOS X.0 + all released updates ...
and from your answer it seems it is gone CentOS 4.1 have diferent versions of SW then CentOS 4.0 + updates
I know CentOS depend on RH releases but presented strategy is brain dead
I have several servers with fixed setup and I have local mirror. Now it seems I have to mirror not only "updates" but "updates" and "base".
Before half a year there was talk about high bandwith, so lets download all the stuff.
Petr Klíma
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