Modifying CentOS repository with GoDaddy virtual hosting

#Written by: Michael Wood
#Date 11-17-2011

By default GoDaddy uses its on repositories.  Downside to this is,
they don't keep them updated - not by a long shot.  I would check for
updates and realize nothing was being pulled down.  So, I pulled out
the trusty ol' vi editor and checked out the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Looking at the file, the two sections we are going to be editing are
(Make a backup copy first!  cp CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Base.repo.bak):

[base]
name=CentOS-5 - Base
mirrorlist=http://s2plmirror01.prod.sdl2.secureserver.net/vph/2/download/mirrors/cos-5.i386
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos5

#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-5 - Updates
mirrorlist=http://s2plmirror01.prod.sdl2.secureserver.net/vph/2/download/mirrors/cos-5-updates.i386
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos5


In the first section [base] GoDaddy uses its on servers for updates.
In our case it's
"http://s2plmirror01.prod.sdl2.secureserver.net/vph/2/download/mirrors/cos-5.i386"
Trying to browser that URL either timesout or doesn't connect at all.
But if you look below that line you'll see a failover method, BUT the
baseurl for CentOS's main repository mirror has been commented
out...how shady of them.

Same goes for #release updates

Change the line under [base]:
mirrorlist=http://s2plmirror01.prod.sdl2.secureserver.net/vph/2/download/mirrors/cos-5.i386

To:
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os


Next, change the same under #released updates, from:
mirrorlist=http://s2plmirror01.prod.sdl2.secureserver.net/vph/2/download/mirrors/cos-5-updates.i386

To:
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates


So, the end result would be:

[base]
name=CentOS-5 - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos5

#released updates
[update]
name=CentOS-5 - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos5

Choosing mirrorlist.centos.org will pick the fastest mirror to pull in
updates from.  Now run the command "yum update" and you'll notice you
have quite a few outdated packages.