Troy Dawson wrote:

> Niels Walet wrote:
>
>> Ran into the same ypserv problem today, and realised that the important
>> latest upgrade is in the sl-fastbugs repository, which is not normally
>> enabled :-(
>>
>> Can I therefore question what IS the role of fastbugs vis-a-vis errata?
>> Tried to search the Howto's and mailing list, but found no guidance 
>> on al
>> l
>> the  various repos and their role. I do understand the non-SL ones, 
>> and w
>> hy
>> they're not enabled, but the SL ones should at least be described 
>> somewhe
>> re!
>> Niels
>
>
> Good point Niels,
> I'm writting it up right now ... just out of curiousity, where would 
> the logical place be for you on www.scientificlinux.org ?
> I was thinking in the documentation/faq ... maybe doing a new one FAQ 
> section called yum-apt-repositories ?  Does that sound like a logical 
> place?
>
> Troy

Yes, I think it would: that is where I looked first (documentation for 
SL 4x, and then FAQ).
Niels

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