[CentOS] CentOS 4 HTTPD strange dependencies problem

Wed Aug 10 10:30:46 UTC 2005
Petr Klíma <petr.klima at madeta-group.cz>

Sorry, I know I should keep cool
but what I describe newer hapend in CentOS 3 till now.

I have several machines installed from CentOS 3.0 media and I newer need 
  download other thing except "updates" .

I remember cca. 4-6 months back there was major change in repository 
organisation. (There was a long talk about "How older releases should 
change its yum.conf URL to work with new layout). Isn't this result of 
the change? Or am I tolally wrong?

Former model - where all releases "updates" had its directory with 
appropriate updates and not yust link to "hopefully global updates". It 
was HDD hungry, I know.

But

Newer model - where all releases are linky to one directory

Karanbir Singh napsal(a):
> 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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