Lance Davis wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote: > > >>Now that >>http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be it >>by design or error) > > > It hasnt gone - it just contains the same as 3.4 ... > > It should be a symlink to 3.4 - and if not then something has gone > wrong. > > (I have just checked the mirrors and it looks like one of them has been > set up wrong - it is centosl - I will try yo fix it ...) > > >>I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in >>http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ >> >>Can anyone confirm this? > > > well some of the updates may be in os/ rather than updates/ > > >>In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 >>and 3.4? >> >>If the answer is Yes: >> Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 >>directory as well? > > > 3.1 is also a symlink to 3.4 > > >>If the answer is No: >> What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install >>with it anymore because I can't get patches. > > > of course you can - you install and then update to 3.4 So I need to install from the 3.3 media And then update to the versions on the 3.4 media And then install the 3.4 updates? If I had 3.4 media I could just install off that. I am looking at a local mirror setup which does not require me to download new CDs every 3 months. > > >> >>The management of these update directories always causes me confusion >>though it should be simple. > > > It is simple :) I still can't figure it out :( Every time I look things have changed. I also have another question which I will ask here.... it is about the x86_64 updates http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ There are i386 updates in there. Are these required? They are the same as the i386 versions. If so, I end up downloading them multiple times which is a pain :( John. > > Regards > Lance > > >>John. >> >> > > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin