Petr Klíma wrote:
Taken together, the base and updates will be the latest version.
Which is the right way of doing things, since that is what constitues the distro. ( base + updates )
So I can yust say
IT IS WRONG
Why ?
there were a lot of talks about it here:
When you install CentOS x.0 and you run "yum update" you get finaly lates CentOS X.Y ...
yup, that is correct.
and from your answer it seems it is gone CentOS 4.1 have diferent versions of SW then CentOS 4.0 + updates
What makes you think that ?
You might want to take a look at how yum works with repositories... ( hint: it dosent pull updates only from the updates repo ).
I know CentOS depend on RH releases but presented strategy is brain dead
Again, can you please elaborate on this ?
I have several servers with fixed setup and I have local mirror. Now it seems I have to mirror not only "updates" but "updates" and "base".
This is indeed the right way of doing things. I am not sure what your problem is, except that you will save hdd space like this. Only changed packages ( using rsync ? ) are going to be downloaded anyway. And if you are using a network install to setup the machines, each machine will come up with a 'recent' install base.
Before half a year there was talk about high bandwith, so lets download all the stuff.
While bandwidth issues have eased up a bit, it still makes sense to run a local mirror if you have more than a few machines.
- K