Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-3-2008 11:40 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following:
I have downloaded & installed mrepo on my SME 7.3 (CentOS 4.6) server, which is our main file & email server, and internet gateway.
I have got CentOS 5.0 i386 & x86_64 DVD's, and CentOS 5.1 i386 & x86_64 CD1, where do I copy these? I have setup /etc/mrepo.conf.d/centos5.conf with both i386 & x86_64 arch, but how will mrepo know that CentOS 5.0 & CentOS 5.1 are different?
That is the first real misconception you need to overcome. 5.0 and 5.1 aren't really "different". They are the same software at different patch levels. Similar to Windows XP with service pack 1 and Windows XP with service pack 2. There are very few reasons to stay with an older release of the software, and if you don't know what those reasons are, you don't need to use the older releases.
I understand the different versions fully :) The only reason I have both, is cause of some servers still running on CentOS 5.0, and we're only starting to move to 5.1. But, I do have some DVD's with 5.0 (both i386 & x86_64), so I'm not going to bother with 5.0 on the local repository. I'll only rsync the 5.1 (i386 & x86_64) files from the remote servers. We still have a lot of i386 CPU's, and some 64bit CPU's as well, so it will help a lot to have the 32bit files / rpm's as well