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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc