Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Troy,
> 
> 
>>>Hello there,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to understand the SL4 releases so I know what to mirror 
>>>locally and what my machines should track.
>>>
>>>under ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/
>>>we have (amongst others):
>>> 40
>>> 40rolling
>>> 41
>>> 42
>>> 4x
>>>
>>>I understand that 40 is RHEL4, 41 is RHEL4+update1, 42 is RHEL4+update2, 
>>>am I right?
>>>
>>
>>Correct, you are right.
>>
>>
>>>I think that 40rolling is the development branch that is unstable and 
>>>may change on a daily basis- am I right?
>>>
>>
>>Also Correct, and you are right.
>>
>>
>>>I don't know what 4x is - can someone explain?
>>>
>>
>>Hmm ... seem's I don't have this on the web pages anywhere, I'll 
>>have to do that at some point. 4x (and 30x) is defined as "the 
>>latest stable release" If you look in the folder, you will see that 
>>they are actually links, pointing back to the latest releases.  When 
>>a new release (let's say 
>>4.3) is released, then the link get's moved to point to the new release.
> 
> 
> In effect what you're saying here, is that if we were to point our yum update
> repo at that directory, then we'd always be able to automatically upgrade our
> distributions when you've released a new one?
> 
> Michael.

Correct
I keep meaning to write it up, and keep getting distracted when I get to 
doing tests.  The test I want to do is to to make sure that updateing 
yum-conf, keeps the settings.  I believe it should, but I don't like to 
write things up unless I've tested it at least once.

Troy
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