[SLL] yum repos and the mysterious life of releasever

[jkeating]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:40:03 -0700
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> OK for a concrete example, but relating to kickstart, let's say I
> have a local mirror of the CentOS updates on in internal ftp
> server, accessible via anon-ftp as follows:
> 
> 	/mirrors/centos/4.5/updates/i386
> 	/mirrors/centos/4.5/updates/x86_64
> 	/mirrors/centos/5.0/updates/i386
> 	/mirrors/centos/5.0/updates/x86_64
> 
> What do I put in my ks.cfg file, something like this for a 32-bit
> CentSO 5 system?
> 
> repo Updates ftp://ftp.example.com/mirrors/centos/5.0/updates/i386

I think the command (at least in Fedora) is
repo --name=Updates
--baseurl=ftp://ftp.example.com/mirrors/centos/5.0/updates/i386

> 
> I would also like to be able to specify this same site for
> updating our local systems using ``yum update''.  Would I then
> hack the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file modifying the
> [updates] section with a line like:
> 
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.example.com/mirrors/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

You could add it there, or you could create your own .repo file in that
directory and define it in there too.

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