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CentOS 6 Update-Only Repo !
Hello,
I've been working on a CentOS 6 Update-only Repo off lately, Mainly to provide the latest builds / releases of applications for CentOS 6,
The "Project" is hosted on a VPS sponsored by VMPort. I would also like to add that the project is no way near complete, As everyone knows, a CentOS or any other OS repo is huge, and hosting one needs loads of storage, If any "Provider" can contribute a VPS, PM me 
The Repo Currently contains only 32bit updates, 64bit updates will be added in soon (maby 1 - 2 hours later)
It currently contains 452 RPM's (Will update with more soon)
Link to the repo :
http://servphp.org/centos/
You'll have to update your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo with this repo to get it working
[update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://servphp.org/centos/6/updates/i386/
Thanks !
Comments
Repo is down for update now
adding in more apps 
**EDIT **: Its online now, 32 bit full repo is there
Doesn't CentOS have their own repo servers?
Most likely updated versions that aren't in the CentOS repo.
Yup, its got all the latest stuff in it
How often is it updated?
^^ daily, I've setup a cron for it
it emails me the latest stuff which is available and it updates itself 
I'm sorry, I really don't see the point of this, can someone explain it for me? If you wanted to create a repo, why not mirror CentOS, but to create a limited repo that is not rpmforge or epel quality seems redundant, if you want more current packages, run Scientific Linux.
thanks for the suggestion, for now the php, mysql and apache are all upto date.
I'll mirror a few other repositorys too and update the packages here with those. is the scientific linux repository 100% compatible with centos ?
Yes and no, SL is a distro like CentOS is a distro, without the drama, that strives to be 100% binary compatable with RHEL
hmmm...so they'll work with centos ?
im just confirming as im guessing that the repository will be really huge
Yes and no, CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux is all RHEL for a simplistic understanding.
CentOS has some major drama going on and has fallen very far behind RHEL, while Scientific Linux lacks these problems, and therefore is much more current in respect to RHEL. All will always be very far behind the latest greatest version of any package, and for good reason, stability. Security updates are very quick to be released, but stability is their goal here, if you want to run bleeding edge, run Arch.
Gets babes.
If you mean kids, mine are teens now.
Replenish the herd.
I'll setup 2 more branches -
testing (something between latest and stable) and latest (untested)
so we'll have 3 branches :
stable
latest
testing
Don't know ab0out others but I equate latest to stable.
@drmike : Hmm.. I was thinking of :
Stable (Older but works always)
Latest (New, Tested)
Testing (Latest, No Testing Done)
Update : Stable repo updated, adding testing branch now.
New homepage for the repo ! http://servphp.org/centos-repo.html
You may want to include some actual information on the repo homepage. Where do the packages actually come from? Do you compile them yourself, or is this a mirror of some other repo? Where should bugs be reported? What makes your repo better than remi or EPEL?
What if there's a security vulnerability in the packages you're distributing? Are you going to patch them yourself, or will they have to wait for... well, whoever your upstream is, to patch them? Heck, how would someone even find out there's a vulnerability? Do you have a mailing list that one can subscribe to to get security bulletins related to these packages?
These are all pretty important questions that I would have if I came across your repo's homepage, especially since its software that you didn't write.
@NickM : I don't compile them my self yet, will start soon once I add in the latest packages this week.
I'll be adding a bugtracker for this project too. I'll add a blog to address the security
issues.
EDIT : The BugTracker has been added with the category "ServPHP CentOS Repository"
here : http://servphp.org/bugtracker
All bugs can be reported there
I'll add the blog soon.
cough cough
Hmmm, that sounds familiar.
Updated the repo