I run yum update to latest on SL5.0. After successful update to SL5.8
some packages disappeared such as mysql-server and php support.
Can somebody explain such strange behavior?

On 7/18/2012 8:45 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 18/07/12 15:37, Semi wrote:
>
>> 2) When I run update from Centos I also updating the release number.
>>
>> For example:
>> from Centos 5.2
>> yum update
>> I'll get Centos 5.8
>>
>> and SL doesn't raises the release version ?
> That's documented here:
>
> SL 6.x:
> <http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.6x>
>
> SL 5.x:
> <http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x>
>
> Unless you have installed the yum-conf-sl6x package (on SL6.x), you
> won't upgrade the minor version of the distro automatically.  So in that
> case, you need to do it explicit as described above.
>
>
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth