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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