Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> My system: Pentium III 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM running SL 4.3.
> 
> 
> I have some questions and some possible bug reports.
> 
> 
> 1) Which one should we use when upgrading from SL 4.2 to SL 4.3?
> 
> yum-conf-43-2.SL.noarch.rpm or yum-conf-4x-1-2.SL.noarch.rpm? I used the 
> first.
> 

If you just want to go to 4.3, then you should do 
yum-conf-43-2.SL.noarch.rpm, or more specifically

If you follow the web page
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.4x

rpm -Uvh 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm


The rpm yum-conf-4x-1-2.SL.noarch.rpm (notice that it is different that 
the one from the web page) is designed for people who ALWAYS want to be 
on the lead distribution as soon as it comes out.  Basically, it points 
to /scientific/4x/ instead of /scientific/43/ or /scientific/42/
I will have a web page written up on it soon, but I first have to fix 
it.  It has a conflict error, so it's hard to install right now.  This 
won't happen until next week.


> 
> 2) Repository sl-testing produces an error message under Yum Extender:
> 
> "failure: repodata/repomd.xml from sl-testing: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try."
> 
> 

OK, thanks for reporting this.
It will be fixed soon.
Just incase you are wondering, there isn't anything in testing currently 
that hasn't passed it's tests and is in the 4.3 release or contrib.  So 
you won't find anything new in there.

> 3) Under Yum Extender there are two profiles available:
> 
> yum-enabled and SL. What are the differences between the two of them?
> 
> 

You can always find what is selected in a yumex.profile by looking in
/etc/yumex.profiles.conf

There you will see what is selected for SL

The "yum-enabled" profile is new to this version of yumex.  What it does 
is select what you would get if you just did 'yum' instead of 'yumex'.
This is because yumex can have repositories enabled or disabled, 
separatly from what the generic yum has.


> 4) Just for the record I mention this again. irqbalance produces a 
> FAILURE message during shutdown.

/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 irqbalance off

It's a good idea to turn off all services that you don't need off.  If 
it's giving a failure error, then you don't need that particular one. 
(Note: that's not always true, but for this service it is).  You should 
turn it off.
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