CentOS 5.3 has just been released and that means it’s time to update our Local CentOS 5.x YUM repo.

Create the following additional Directories:

# mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/5.3/os/i386
# mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/5.3/updates/i386
# mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/5.3/os/x86_64
# mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/5.3/updates/x86_64

Add the CentOS 5.3 repo to the bash script which will rsync your local YUM Repo server with a CentOS 5.3 YUM mirror.

CentOS Mirror list – http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

# vi yum-repo-update.sh

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#!/bin/sh
 
rsync="rsync -avrt --bwlimit=256"
 
mirror=ftp.is.co.za::IS-Mirror/centos
 
verlist="5 5.2 5.3</span>"
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

NB! Please read creating a Local CentOS YUM repository on CentOS 5.x before implementing.

Upgrading from CentOS 5.2 ( or CentOS 5.0 / 5.1 ):

If you are already running CentOS 5.3 or an older CentOS 5 distro, all you need to do is update your machine via yum by running :

# yum update