Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Marc Muehlfeld
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 -

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de 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,

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Troy Dawson
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

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: On 05/25/2011 02:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote: 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

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Troy Dawson
On 05/25/2011 07:13 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld marc.muehlf...@medizinische-genetik.de 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

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: This is where SL differs from both RHEL and CentOS. We do not force you to update to the latest release. If a person installs SL 6.0, they will stay at SL 6.0, only getting the security errata, until they wish to update.

Re: Some questions about the SL repositories

2011-05-25 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: snip If you're setting up an internal mirror for whatever reason (which I do for running mock), be sure to use rsync or ftp in order to replicate the symlinks and save a *lot* of download and disk resource. And if you use rsync be sure to use the