[CentOS] CentOS 4 HTTPD strange dependencies problem

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:49 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > When a new update set is released (ie 4.1, 3.5, etc.), only the latest
> > [base] and [updates] are included in the main tree.
> > 
> > Taken together, the base and updates will be the latest version.
> > 
> > If you install from old media (3.3, 4.0) then you need to have [base]
> > and [updates] in your yum configuration.
> > 
> > (or get the 4.1 ISOs to use as your [base])
> > 
> 
> So I can yust say
> 
> IT IS WRONG
> 
Wrong or Right is not relevant

it is what it is

CentOS has been doing things the same way since it's inception ... 

> 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 ...
> 
> CentOS X.4 is CentOS X.0 + all released updates ...
> 
> 
> and from your answer it seems it is gone
> CentOS 4.1 have diferent versions of SW then CentOS 4.0 + updates
> 
> 
> I know CentOS depend on RH releases but presented strategy is brain dead
> 
> 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".
> 
> Before half a year there was talk about high bandwith, so lets download 
> all the stuff.
If you want to have a local mirror ... then you need to
mirror /centos/4/

it will always be up2date

This is the same with CentOS 3 and it is absolutely not a change to the
way we have been doing things for almost 2 years
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