Hi All

I am N00b with Linux still so its probably something stupid im doing on myside but

I decided to create a local repository for my centOS 6.2 boxes (LOL ok 1 at present )
I managed to get the local repo done without issues , and can navigate without issues from any browser on my LAN but my issue is that when running YUM update from my test server using the following details

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://servername/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

I receive a [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"

it would seems that yum is trying to use a $releasever of 6 where as my version is 6.2
according to the yum man pages

$releasever This will be replaced with the value of the version of the package listed in "distroverpkg". This defaults to the version of "redhat- release" package.

So when I query the release using
# rpm -qa '*release*'
I get this
centos-release-6-2.el6.centos.7.x86_64

so now my problem is why is YUM trying to specify a $releasever value of 6 instead of the 6.2 ???

if i renable the CentOS-Base.repo file it works perfectly , so maybe there's an issue with my local repo??

im using the below script and connecting to ftp.is.co.za rsync mirror

#!/bin/sh

rsync="rsync -avrt --bwlimit=256"

mirror=ftp.is.co.za::IS-Mirror/centos

verlist="6.2"
archlist="i386 x86_64"
baselist="os updates"
local=/var/www/html/centos/

for ver in $verlist
do
for arch in $archlist
do
for base in $baselist
do
remote=$mirror/$ver/$base/$arch/
$rsync $remote $local/$ver/$base/$arch/
done
done
done

only thing additional i did was to create a sym link from
/var/www/html/centos -> /data/centos for space reasons
and created a context reference for SELINUX

like i said im still learning and am most probably doing something stupid on my config

please help

Kind Regards

Fatboyslim

releasever IS 6. it's not meant to be 6.2 The latest RPM's for EL6 should be available under that location.

Note that 6.2 is just a baseline of updates for ease of installation more than anything else. a 6.0 system kept up to date will have the exact same versions of any package on a newly install 6.2 box.

Howzit Bud

thanks for the reply ,sorry im being a bit stupid here when you run yum does it first check http://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/centos/6/
before moving on to the version that i am running ie : http://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/centos/6.2/ ???

do i need to rsync 6 down to my local mirror also even if i am not running any centos 6 boxes ??

thanks man

You *ARE* running CentOS 6. 6.2 IS 6. Look at the pages for two urls you posted in a browser... spot the difference? No... me neither.

Hi Chris
This seems to be a bit higher grade for me apologies for wasting your time ,
so should i rsync 6 and 6,2 or just rename 6.2 to 6 and create a symlink for 6.2 ?

6 should be a symlink to 6.2. they should be exactly the same files.

Thanks Chris