[CentOS] keeping a mirror of the updates repo

James A. Peltier jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca
Mon Dec 10 16:39:23 UTC 2007


Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I have a local mirror of CentOS5 base and updates. Now with 5 having 
> become 5.1 and in case I just want to keep on updating (at the moment) is 
> it enough that I update the mirror of updates or do I also need an update 
> of the base repo?
>
> Kai
>
>   
I loop automount the 5.1 isos as base OS and just fetch the updates 
repos.  This allows me to just keep fetching the updates.  With each 
release I download the ISOs, adjust my automounts to point to the new 
isos, restart automount and begin updating.



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