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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:55:19 -0600
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Re: sl-release package and /etc/yum/var/slrelease
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Hi David,

Thanks for the bug report!  I thought I'd fixed that sl-release-7.1-2

Guess not......

I'll look into getting a fix produced.

Pat

On 02/09/2016 05:01 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems to be a bug with the sl-release packaging of /etc/yum/var/slrelease.
>
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7x
> # yum erase yum-conf-sl7x
> ...
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7x
> # yum reinstall sl-release
> ...
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7x
> # rm /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> # yum reinstall sl-release
> ...
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7.1
> # yum --releasever=7.2 update sl-release
> ...
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7.1
> # rm /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> # yum --releasever=7.2 reinstall sl-release
> ...
> # cat /etc/yum/var/slrelease
> 7.2
>
>
> It seems that slrelease does not overwrite the slrelease file at all.
>
> Is this a known issue?  Or is it a feature?
>
>

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