On Fri, October 10, 2008 11:39 am, Ned Slider wrote:
Bo Lynch wrote:
I am trying to set up a local repo for my division. I tried to rsync 5.1 updates off the mirrors and recieved an error of no file or dir. After going to the mirror, I notice that all of the 5.1 filder is empty and there is a readme there that states..... This directory (and version of CentOS) is depreciated. For normal users, you should use /5/ and not /5.1/ in your path. Please see this FAQ concerning the CentOS release scheme:
http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=34
If you know what you are doing, and absolutely want to remain at the 5.1 level, go to http://vault.centos.org/ for packages.
So I just want to make sure that I'm understanding this correct. I should use the 5.1 original RPMS for my base OS and get my updates for 5.1 from the 5 folder???? Just sounds weird. Should I do the same for my 5.0 release? Thanks for you help.
You *don't* run 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2, you run 5.
The point releases (5.0, 5.1, 5.2 etc) are simply snapshots in time of the CentOS 5 product life cycle where development was temporarily frozen just long enough to spin a set of install media.
You should always get updates from 5 which is a link to the current (and only supported) release. This happens to currently be 5.2. If you were to get updates directly against 5.2 then when 5.3 is released you would get no more updates to CentOS 5 ever. This is why you should *never* link updates against 5.x and always 5.
Note: 5 and 5.0 are not the same thing.
Hope that helps :)
Ned, So you are saying that I should point my yum clients to the 5/updates/i386 folder for updates correct? No matter if they are 5 5.1 5.2? Not trying to be redundant...Just want to make sure that I'm understanding this correct before I actually give it a go. So my pub folder would have centos/5.1/os/i386 which would have the original 5.1 rpms and I would set the updates repo to point to the centos/5/updates/i386 right? So all I really need to rsync is the updates from the 5 folder on the mirror.