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Re: SL release question
From:
"KC.Gmail" <[log in to unmask]>
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KC.Gmail
Date:
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:20:02 +0800
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HI

On 10/27/06, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> KC.Gmail wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm both SL and Fedora Core user.  For FC, eg FC2, I always
> > keep my system up-to-date by using 'yum'.   I found that a
> > updated FC2 is still NOT a FC3 or FC4.
> >
> > For SL, I have a SL4.2 use as my mail/www server.  I recently
> > upgrade the SL4.2 by 'yum' and found some SL4.4 packages are
> > installed ???
> >
>
> Such as ???

The first time I found this is when I doing
the following on SL4.2 after I upgrade using 'yum':

mail42:~> cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL release 4.4 (Beryllium)
mail42:~> rpm -q sl-release
sl-release-4.4-4
mail42:~>

But just as you said, I should explain the release number
as 'patch' number ... Thanks for your confirmation.

Regards
KC


>
> > I believe I probably can't simply upgrade a SL3.x to SL4.x by yum but
> > does a up-to-date SL4.2 is SL4.4 ?
> >
>
> The packages for SL4x (SL 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) are all compatible
> with each other.
> When we release security errata for SL 4x, it is the exact same package
> that goes to all of them.  We always build on the oldest release we
> have, which is SL 4.0 (with security updates).  This way it's compatible
> with the oldest, all the way up to the newest SL 4.x distibution.
>
> So, our point releases (SL 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) are not the same as the
> various Fedora Core releases (3, 4, 5).  Fedora builds their security
> errata on wichever Core release they are compiling for.
>
> Our point releases are comparable to RedHat's Updates (Update 2, Update
> 3, Update 4) to RHEL4.  You are still running RHEL 4, but you have the
> newest bugfixes for that version of RHEL.
>
> So, in the end, it IS possible to use yum to get from one point release
> to another, but if that happens without you doing something, then we've
> messed up and we need to fix it.
>
> Troy
> --
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