Yep, that's what I do at home. The trouble for off-net machines is the
download time - over 24 hours for CentOS 7 + epel, and then copy over.
If you don't grab everything, the one package you miss is the one that
stops the update. :-(
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>Behalf Of John R Pierce
>Sent: 04 February 2015 19:01
>To: centos at centos.org
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] multipathd
>
>On 2/4/2015 6:02 AM, Rushton Martin wrote:
>> OS is CentOS 5.3 (yes, I know - upgrade)
>
>at least patch CentOS 5. 5.3 is a snapshot from 6 years ago (2009),
>there've been 6 years of updates to CentOS 5 since that point, both
>security and bug fixes. `yum update` would bring you up to CentOS the
>.11 update plus security/bug fixes since.
>
>
>
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>john r pierce 37N 122W
>somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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