[Centos] 3.3 -> 3.4 transition

[Johnny Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:54 +1100, John Newbigin wrote:
> Lance Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > well in fact 3.4 will actually go to 3/ and we will be moving the old 
> > repos for 3.1 & 3.3 to an old-updates directory that isnt mirrored.
> > 
> > 3.1 & 3.3 will become symlinks to 3/ and anyone that updates will get 3.4
> > 
> > centos-release will have version 3/ and epoch 2 to facilitate this 
> > transition.
> > 
> > This is to become dag compatible and to make updates easier.
> This is IMHO good news but before it happens, will there be an 
> announcement so I can fix my rsync scripts?
> 
> Also, can someone clarify what I need to do here:
> Lets say I have a few machines which have never been patched.  Some 3.1, 
> some 3.3 and some 3.4.  Is there a single directory that I can point 
> them all at to get all the patches that they all need?
> 
It will be 3 ... or in yum.conf, $releasever ... like this:

http://whatever.xxx/xxx/centos/3/addons/$basearch

or

http://whatever.xxx/xxx/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch

from now on ... 3 will be the $releasever, and will be the latest
version.