FWIW uninstalling the 7x conf and reinstalling it with the cleanup led to 702 
files to be downloaded. Being paranoid I am taking a couple good backups before 
I load that many new things on my machine. So apparently the previous 7x install 
didn't take completely.

{^_-}

On 20180514 01:04, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 14/05/18 02:13, jdow wrote:
>> I notice that the system which declares 7.3 has been supposedly running 7x for
>> a very long time now, before 7.4 went public. I also notice some of the
>> installed repos, such as elrepo, explicitly say 7x. Other's use $slreleasever.
>>
>> I figure there must be some good reason for this. I'm wondering what that good
>> reason might be.
> 
> $ rpm -q sl-release
> 
> This should be a good indication.  If this package is not updated, then the
> whole system announces itself as an older release - plus the base sl7-*
> repositories point at an older release as well.
> 
>