Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)? I don't want to have 2 directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need. I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not. If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which might be a problem.
As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? and is running 3.1 still secure?
John.
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:02 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)? I don't want to have 2 directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need.
3.3 - base + 3.3 updates has all the patches you'll need. If you want to merge 3.3 base + 3.3 updates into one dir then just copy them together and run yum-arch.
I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not.
3.3 + 3.3 updates should be everything you need.
If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which might be a problem.
you shouldn't no.
As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? and is running 3.1 still secure?
3.1 has all the updates applied to it just as 3.3 does.
so no difference.
-sv
I think I am getting an idea of what is going on...
All the patches (ever) for CentOS-3 are in 3.1 updates. Only patches from _after_ CentOS-3.3 are in 3.3 updates. If this is the case, then the only reason _not_ to stay with the 3.1 updates directory is that I have to edit my yum config file after I install centos-release-3.3-1.
Assuming this is correct, has anyone planned what will happen after U4 comes out?
Thanks
John.
seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:02 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)? I don't want to have 2 directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need.
3.3 - base + 3.3 updates has all the patches you'll need. If you want to merge 3.3 base + 3.3 updates into one dir then just copy them together and run yum-arch.
I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not.
3.3 + 3.3 updates should be everything you need.
If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which might be a problem.
you shouldn't no.
As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? and is running 3.1 still secure?
3.1 has all the updates applied to it just as 3.3 does.
so no difference.
-sv
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