On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:50:31 +1000 John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au> disait: > Now that > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be > it by design or error) > > I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ > > Can anyone confirm this? > > In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 > and 3.4? > > If the answer is Yes: > Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 > directory as well? > > If the answer is No: > What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install > with it anymore because I can't get patches. > > > The management of these update directories always causes me confusion > though it should be simple. > What about old centos's which yum.conf point on "centos-3" instead of "centos" ? I Think we still need a simlink "centos-3" on "centos" , or we will get this message: Error getting file http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found In a normal way, i should not have to modify yum.conf by hand ... -- Martin