[CentOS] CentOS 4 HTTPD strange dependencies problem

Wed Aug 10 09:44:52 UTC 2005
Karanbir Singh <Mail-Lists at karan.org>

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

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