On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:48, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
Hi :)
Hi Antonio.
----- "Paul Herbosch" paul.herbosch@tbwaworld.com escreveu:
I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository which is working fine. Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file I copied the OS directory from the install media and ran createrepo on that dir.
Well, I had some CentOS 5.3 and 4.8 servers too. But, I mirror the directory structure and loop mount an ISO image on the "os" dir on it :)
thx for the tip.
I would like to upgrade my servers to 5.4. I was wondering if I could simply replace the '5.3' part in the rsync source to '5.4' ? Or is there more to it?
When a new version is released I link copy the "old" structure to a new one (cp -al 5.3 5.4), mount the new media under the "os" tree, and run rsync against a mirror of the new structure. I do this because sometimes there are packages in common betwen both versions and I didn't need to download it (or store it, as it is only a hard link) again.
When I think the new version is ok to run in my production servers I simply move the upper link from one version to another, i.e. fom 5 -> 5.3 to 5 -
5.4, the yum.conf
files are set to get from the "5" repo and not from "5.x"
ok, so you decide when you want to upgrade your prod servers. you make sure you have a local copy of 5.4 available somewhere and change the symlink so yum has access to the rpms.
another question: do 5.4 rpms at some point end up in the 5.3 update repo? (if this is the case I don't have to do anything but wait for them to show up) or do I always have to rsync 5.4 over and arrange my files so that yum finds them in the "5" directory (and not "5.4")
Hope this helps
Antonio.
thx, paul -- Paul Herbosch Operations TBWA\ Worldwide IT Mobile: +32 477 36 81 92 www.mytbwa.com/Technology
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