On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 09/22/11 3:08 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote:
If you want to take the risk anyway, the following (untested) might work: Modify your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo try to replace the baseurl's $releasever with 5.6...
no, as the 5.6 specific files are removed when 5.7 is released. you'd have to get a clone of the vault's 5.6 directory and set that up as a local repository instead, then point the repo file to that.
crap ... the 5.6 files are still there .. just change the baseurl like john doe wrote and you'll get an update to 5.6
no, they aren't.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/
empty. except a readme file telling you to look in /5/ instead, which has the 5.7 stuff in it.
Why would the 5.6 stuff have been removed?
Apart from the "5.7 is more secure" answer, or even "we're running out of disk space", what is the actual reason behind this?
surely a few versions of the OS won't take up that much space? 1TB & 2TB HDD's these day cost a few dollars so I don't think that's the real reason. And it can't be bandwidth either since the files are mirrored to many other servers around the globe.