[CentOS-mirror] Gigenet mirror up

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Feb 14 12:15:02 UTC 2007


Matthew Martz wrote:
> 4/
> 4.0/
> 4.1/
> 4.2/
> 4.3/
> 4.4/
> RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
> TIME
> timestamp.txt
> 
> 4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 are links to 4.4.  

no they are not! and must NEVER be.

> This is recommended as yum
> updates will use these when requesting updates that will update one
> version to the next.

only the /4/ is a symlink to the most recent release, yum _ONLY_ uses 
/4/ by default on CentOS-4 and never uses the sub release number. This 
is by design and please do not link 4.0/ 4.1/ 4.X/ to anything, they 
contain their own data ( essentially a readme file with the deprecation 
notice )

- KB


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