CentOS - Oct 2009 - local centos repository upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4

Hi list,

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.

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?

Thank you in advance,
Kind regards,

Paul Herbosch

=== What I'm currently rsyncing ==rsync -avrt
rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/CentOS/5.3/addons/i386 --
exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/centos/5/addons/
rsync -avrt rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/CentOS/5.3/centosplus/ 
i386 --exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/centos/5/centosplus/
rsync -avrt rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/CentOS/5.3/contrib/i386  
--exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/centos/5/contrib/
rsync -avrt rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/CentOS/5.3/extras/i386 -- 
exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/centos/5/extras/
rsync -avrt rsync://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/CentOS/5.3/updates/i386  
--exclude=debug/ /var/www/html/centos/5/updates/

=== Local /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file ==[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://mylocalreposerver/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
#
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://mylocalreposerver/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

etc...

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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.

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