Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
The problem is whether there is a way to achieve the following:
Continue to install machines with Centos 5.0(!!) distro (not 5.1, 5.2, etc snapshots|subreleases), But have .../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS|i386|x86_64}/ repositories|directories which contains updates since 5.0 to current level. This way I only need to feed yum with two repositories: centos/5.0/os/ and centos/5/updates/ -- some time will have local custom repos as well, but that is another totally different topic.
If you install a Centos 4.0 now you can 'yum update' and you'll end up current with 4.5. I think this works because the [base] repository floats with the symlinks to point at one containing the updated versions of everything at the point release time. If you are talking about mirroring the contents you'll have to mirror the symlinked directory.