Now that http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be it by design or error) I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ Can anyone confirm this? In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 and 3.4? If the answer is Yes: Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 directory as well? If the answer is No: What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install with it anymore because I can't get patches. The management of these update directories always causes me confusion though it should be simple. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, John Newbigin wrote:> Now that > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be it > by design or error)It hasnt gone - it just contains the same as 3.4 ... It should be a symlink to 3.4 - and if not then something has gone wrong. (I have just checked the mirrors and it looks like one of them has been set up wrong - it is centosl - I will try yo fix it ...)> > I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ > > Can anyone confirm this?well some of the updates may be in os/ rather than updates/> > In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 > and 3.4? > > If the answer is Yes: > Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 > directory as well?3.1 is also a symlink to 3.4> > If the answer is No: > What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install > with it anymore because I can't get patches.of course you can - you install and then update to 3.4> > > The management of these update directories always causes me confusion > though it should be simple.It is simple :) Regards Lance> > John. > >-- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:50:31 +1000 John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au> disait:> Now that > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be > it by design or error) > > I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in > http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ > > Can anyone confirm this? > > In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 > and 3.4? > > If the answer is Yes: > Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 > directory as well? > > If the answer is No: > What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install > with it anymore because I can't get patches. > > > The management of these update directories always causes me confusion > though it should be simple. >What about old centos's which yum.conf point on "centos-3" instead of "centos" ? I Think we still need a simlink "centos-3" on "centos" , or we will get this message: Error getting file http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/addons/i386/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found In a normal way, i should not have to modify yum.conf by hand ... -- Martin