CentOS - Oct 2004 - Setting up a local yum repository for CentOS-3.1

Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository 
which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)?  I don't want to have 2 
directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need. 
I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not. 
If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 
3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which 
  might be a problem.

As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? 
and is running 3.1 still secure?

John.

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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:02 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> Is there an approved procedure for setting up a local yum repository 
> which has all the CentOS-3 patches (3.1 & 3.3)?  I don't want to
have 2
> directories, just a single directory which has all the patches I need. 
3.3 - base + 3.3 updates has all the patches you'll need. If you want to
merge 3.3 base + 3.3 updates into one dir then just copy them together
and run yum-arch.
> I though the 3.3 directory would have these included but it seems not. 
3.3 + 3.3 updates should be everything you need.


> If I manually upgrade to centos-release-3.3 (before installing all the 
> 3.1 patches) then I will not get any outstanding patches from 3.1, which 
>   might be a problem.
you shouldn't no.

> As a side issue, is there any reasons for anyone not to upgrade to 3.3? 
> and is running 3.1 still secure?
3.1 has all the updates applied to it just as 3.3 does.

so no difference.


-sv