Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has some bugs in the toolchain and libc. Suggested by whom and where are the bug reports? That being the case, I can install with a url and repo line

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/08/2010 02:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is it simple enough to just manually set '$releasever' to 5.3 in the repo file or do I need to do anything else? Just keep in mind that you will neither get any security updates or bugfix's in 5.3 -- Karanbir Singh London, UK|

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has some bugs in the toolchain and libc. That being the case, I can install with a url and repo line pointing to a mirror with 5.3 still but how does

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Suggested by whom and where are the bug reports? Well, I should more accurately say a projects software isn't compatible with 5.4, not that 5.4 is faulted:) $releasever is 5 and centos/5/ is a link to centos/5.4/ on the mirrors. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks everyone! jlc