[CentOS] Have not had any updates to Centos 5.5

Todd Cary todd at aristesoftware.com
Thu Sep 8 16:22:11 UTC 2011


Many thanks!  Installed and now it is performing 118 updates.

Out of curiosity, how should I have known about this addition to 
yum?  I am not an active Linux server user in that, Centos just 
runs and runs providing me with FTP and HTTP that is used to 
share photographs with others and exchange source code for 
projects.  So, every once in a while, something comes up where I 
need some assistance, and all of you have been so helpful - and 
patient.

Todd

On 9/7/2011 5:07 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 16:40 -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, I am not fully aware of all of yum's settings and
>> functions.  Could you give me a little more detail or point me to
>> the appropriate MAN page?
> (1) Many of us on 5.6 have installed to /etc/yum.repos.d an extra file
> for an extra, probably temporary, new repository called 'CR'.  Unsure
> what CR means but it might be 'Continuous Revision'.
>
> (2) You write you are on 5.5 so I am unsure whether the 'CR' repo is
> also for you. No doubt others will enlighten us.
>
> (3) The contents of the CR repo are (the file name is your own choice):-
>
> # CentOS-CR.repo
> #
> # The continuous release  ( CR ) repository contains rpms from the
> # next point release of CentOS, which isnt itself released as yet.
> #
> # Look at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
> # for more details about how this repository works and what users
> # should expect to see included / excluded
>
> [cr]
> name=CentOS-$releasever - CR
> baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/cr/$basearch/
> gpgcheck=1
> enabled=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> priorities=1
>
> (4) As you will notice, in the file is a link for further information.
>
> (5) If this file is for your 5.5, then install it then do a
>
>
> 	yum update
>
>
> and you should see things being installed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
>
>
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