On Monday 03 May 2010, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:36:30PM -0600, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > One day on the island of Sodor, CentOS 5.(x+1) comes out and the server > > you sync off of updates their repo. What exactly happens when you do a > > version update to your repository? Does essentially /updates get emptied > > and everything moves to /os (as well as updating metadata) and /updates > > starts fresh? Does this work dandy? Any reason to think about redoing > > the repository or is it pretty seamless? > > Shouldn't there be a separate directory for each version? I picked a > centos mirror at random: > > http://mirror.atlanticmetro.net/centos/ > > At this location, there are directories named "5.4", "5.3", "5.2", etc. > > To answer your question, if I were doing a version update, I would > expect to create a new directory. Then, if I were trying to conserve > space, I might consider removing the old one after some period of time.
Ah, and if you point your yum config to version 5, and 5 symlinks to the latest version, then automagically when you do a yum update after the repo admin makes the switch, you get upgraded. I knew I wasn't thinking about this right. I'm up way too late again. -- Jacob Albretsen [email protected] http://blog.knine.net/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
