Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:

I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has "some bugs in the toolchain and libc".

Suggested by whom and where are the bug reports?

That being the case, I can install with a url and repo line pointing to a mirror with 5.3 still but how does one properly make sure during subsequent uses of yum it doesn't attempt to use 5.4 rpms?

As long as 5.3 is on the mirrors, you can "just" change your Base.repo file. But you won't get *any* security or other updates that way.

What actually happens to the 5.3 repo so that `yum update` actually switches repo's when one is available?

$releasever is "5" and centos/5/ is a link to centos/5.4/ on the mirrors.

Ralph