On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:02:59AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
Continue to install machines with Centos 5.0(!!) distro (not 5.1, 5.2, etc snapshots|subreleases), But have .../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS|i386|x86_64}/ repositories|directories which contains updates since 5.0 to current level. This way I only need to feed yum with two repositories: centos/5.0/os/ and centos/5/updates/ -- some time will have local custom repos as well, but that is another totally different topic.
in that case you will need to find the updates in the 5.1/os/ repo as well and put it yourself into the updates/ directory, which will be a waste of time, network bandwidth and resources. You are going to be much better off just installing 5.1 from the future and using that.
For the machines you have 5.0 on, just run yum against the 5.1/os/ and 5.1/updates/ repo, and they will also move to 5.1. Note, the [os] repo also needs to be from 5.1 and not from 5.0 when you run the yum update on the 5.0 installed machines. other wise you *will* loose updates.
I'm coming in here kind of in the middle, but I find this discussion to be confusing... In the past I've always found that my centos/RHEL machines automagically updated themselves to the latest dot-release without me having to do anything other than run yum/up2date.
Are you saying here that a Centos 5 system WILL NOT automatically become 5.1 when the updates are pushed out? Or am I just totally confuzzled?