Johnny Hughes wrote:
Wrong or Right is not relevant
It may not be wrong, but I think is is not good... or at least, it could be better.
it is what it is
CentOS has been doing things the same way since it's inception ...
CentOS-3 & CentOS-4 do this. CentOS-2 & RedHat just keep putting updates in the updates. It does not matter what you install from, all updates is always completely up to date.
I would like to see CentOS 3 & 4 change to the CentOS-2/RedHat approach. I have gathered some thoughts on this and related issues here: http://www.byteclub.net/wiki/index.php?title=Manage_RPM_based_updates
John.
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.
If you want to have a local mirror ... then you need to mirror /centos/4/
it will always be up2date
This is the same with CentOS 3 and it is absolutely not a change to the way we have been doing things for almost 2 years
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