Does yum update the OS

[mneese]

Does yum update the cent os5 operating system from your repository when i use

yum update

Or, do i have to update the OS from somewhere else?

[faris]

When you install Centos, it automatically sets up repositories through which it will update the various packages (and the kernel) that make up the OS (via yum)

So you might install centos 5.3, but then 5.4 comes out and you can upgrade using yum.

You cannot upgrade from centos 4 to centos 5, or centos 5 to centos 6 (when it comes out) though.

The Atomic repositories do not include the OS itself -- they are separate repositories. They only include the things that ART created or packaged up for us (plus Plesk).

Faris.

[mneese]

thank you faris for another detailed response to my issues.

So, when i use the command

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yum update

I am actually addressing the atomic repository as well as the centos repository? Or, do i use some other command to indicate centos as the target. Using "yum update" I will normally see:

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Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * atomic: www.atomicorp.com
plesk                                                    |  951 B     00:00
atomic                                                   |  951 B     00:00
base                                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00
updates                                                  |  951 B     00:00
asl-2.0                                                  |  951 B     00:00
addons                                                   |  951 B     00:00
extras                                                   | 1.1 kB     00:00
Excluding Packages from Plesk Server Administrator
Finished
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

Is this strictly from atomic corp?

[scott]

That configuration says you are using the repos from:

[plesk] - a mirror run by us, for the parallels plesk distribution
[atomic] - this repo
[base] - the base packages from centos (think CD or DVD. Thats what base means), run by centos
[updates] - the updates from centos, run by centos
[asl-2.0] - the Atomic Secured Linux (ASL) repo, run by us
[addons] - centos addons repo, run by centos
[extras] - centos extras repo, run by centos

[chrander]

Could I safely install Centos 5.3 and install every single package from the cd, run yum to freshen them all and then run "yum install psa" and have your script successfully install Plesk 9.2?

--Please note that I wouldn't actually install every package and update it via yum. I understand the leaner the server the better. I am just wanting to get a handle on how well your "psa" script could handle such a scenario.

[scott]

Sure