Hi :) ----- "Paul Herbosch" <paul.herbosch at tbwaworld.com> escreveu: > > I run quite a few centos 5.3 servers and have a local yum repository > which is working fine. > Below a list of what I'm rsyncing at the moment + an extract from my > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file > I copied the OS directory from the install media and ran createrepo on > that dir. > Well, I had some CentOS 5.3 and 4.8 servers too. But, I mirror the directory structure and loop mount an ISO image on the "os" dir on it :) > I would like to upgrade my servers to 5.4. > I was wondering if I could simply replace the '5.3' part in the rsync > source to '5.4' ? > Or is there more to it? When a new version is released I link copy the "old" structure to a new one (cp -al 5.3 5.4), mount the new media under the "os" tree, and run rsync against a mirror of the new structure. I do this because sometimes there are packages in common betwen both versions and I didn't need to download it (or store it, as it is only a hard link) again. When I think the new version is ok to run in my production servers I simply move the upper link from one version to another, i.e. fom 5 -> 5.3 to 5 -> 5.4, the yum.conf files are set to get from the "5" repo and not from "5.x" Hope this helps Antonio. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Antonio S. Martins Jr. - Support Analist | "Only The Shadow Knows | | Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Brasil| what evil lurks in the | | NPD - Núcleo de Processamento de Dados | Heart of Men!" | | E-Mail: asmartins at uem.br / shadow at uem.br | !!! Linux User: 52392 !!! | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Real Programmers don’t need comments — the code is obvious." -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.