On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Paul Hein wrote:

> I have a several machines running SL 6 and I want to turn on sl-fastbugs
> repo to update the software for all the non-critical bugs.  The problem
> is the computers originally had SL 6.1 installed on them and updating
> with sl-fastbugs repo enabled updates only the software with the recent
> bug fixes.  I see that the sl-fastbugs repos exist for previous
> versions.  Is there an easy way to update all those bug fixes?
>
> I have tried to create a repo to access a previous version but failed.
> Here is the repo file:
> [sl-fastbugs]
> name=Scientific Linux 6.4 - x86_64 - fastbug updates
> baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/
> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/
> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/
> #mirrorlist=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-fastbugs-6.txt
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
>
> And here is the errors I got when I tried to use it:
> # yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=sl-6.4-fastbugs.repo update
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, priorities, refresh-packagekit, security
> Repository sl-fastbugs is listed more than once in the configuration
>
>
> Error getting repository data for sl-6.4-fastbugs.repo, repository not found
>
> Thank you for any help you can give.
> Paul
>

The repo name in the above example is "sl-fastbugs" , it is the name 
between  the [  ]

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs update




-Connie Sieh