On 05/25/2011 02:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
Hi,
we're currently evaluating a migration from Centos 5 to SL6. But I have some
questions about repositories:
We have a local repository were our servers get their updates from. But I'm
unsure, what I exaclty have to mirror. On the FTP there are the following
directories:
- 6
- 6.0
- 6rolling
- 6x
Question 1: What are the differences?
6.0 - Version 6.0 of SL
6x - Points to the latest SL6 release, currently 6.0
6 - Same as 6x
6rolling - Rolling as in unstable. This is where we put the Alpha, Beta
and testing releases.
Question 2: The default *.repo uses the $releasever variable, which is
resolved to "6.0". If we plan to always have the newest (minor) version after
every update, I think I have to replace that. Is there an other variable for
that or do I have to hardcode it?
There are two ways to do this.
1 - Hardcode it to point to 6x or 6
(Will have to do this after each update)
2 - yum install yum-conf-sl6x
(This installs another yum yum repository that points to 6x. Because it
is separate from sl-release, it can remain constant what the sl-release
is updated.)
Question 3: Do I have to block any package that would recreate the SL repo
files after an upgrade?
Not if you do the yum-conf-sl6x route.
Hope this helps.
Troy
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