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.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth


> 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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>>
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>> <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of jdow
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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?
>>
>> {^_^}