[CentOS] cs & gfs

Fri Dec 9 16:48:34 UTC 2005
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists at karan.org]
> 
>>Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>>From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists at karan.org]
>>>
>>>
>>>>Jure Pecar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:41:19 -0600
>>>>>Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>We just built some more i686 packages that Karanbir is going to test
> 
> in
> 
>>>>>>the next day or so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If they work even fairly well, we will make them available for
> 
> testing.
> 
>>>>>Any progress on this? 
>>>>
>>>>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-December/000946.html
> 
>>>I don't remember seeing this.  Is the announce list mirrored to this
>>>one, or do I need to subscribe to yet another mailing list to get
>>>these announcements?
>>
>>the annouce list is posted in digest form to this list, one post per
>>day , on days when there is a post in the announce list.
> 
> 
> Ok, I guess I just missed this one.
> 
> On a question more related to the original subject...
> 
> I have a server using cs and gfs that is built from the source rpms on
> http://rpm.karan.org/el4/csgfs/SRPMS/ (modified only enough to compile
> on the latest kernel without hugemem).  Is it safe (or even possible)
> to update these from the official distribution, or do I need to remove
> the current stuff and rebuild the cluster using the official rpms?
> 
> I would like to get to a point where this can be kept up to date with
> a 'yum update' command now that it's in the CentOS distribution.

You should be able to just setup a repo for the csgfs release on 
mirror.centos.org and yum update against that with no problems.

- K