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 __

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 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 one properly make sur

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| http://w

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 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 pointing to a mirro

[CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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 one properly make sure during subsequent uses of yum it doesn't attempt to use 5.4 rpm