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.

{o.o}

On 20180512 06:15, Steven C Timm wrote:
> Two things could be happening--
> 
> (1) yum typically has a delay built into it of a couple days before it refreshes 
> the repo cache when the repo has been changed, and thus may not have detected 
> the new repo is there.
> (2) yum update could be failing for some reason--if you have a stock system 
> there will be e-mail in your root account saying why.
> 
> My systems got the 7.5 updates yesterday May 11.
> 
> Steve Timm
> 
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> *Sent:* Saturday, May 12, 2018 4:29:35 AM
> *To:* scientific-linux-users
> *Subject:* Re: Why is 7.x still stuck at 7.4?
> On 20180511 21:26, jdow wrote:
>> I have yum-conf-sl7x.noarch installed. 7.5 seems to be out. But yum update still
>> leaves the system declaring it is 7.4.
>> 
>> {o.o}   Joanne
>> 
> At least that's what I get on one system. The other is still declaring 7.3:
> 
> [... /etc]$ cat /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever
> 7.3
> 
> Shouldn't that read 7.x or something else if it's really following 7x?
> 
> {^_^}