Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
>> OS: SL 4.3 on a Pentium III.
>>
>>
>> I am using yumex for all updates, but I have just decided to give "yum upgrade" a try. In 
>> yumex no updates were available, but "yum upgrade" found a yum-conf-4x update for 
>> yum-conf. I checked the directory listing in 
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/43/i386/errata/SL/RPMS and found out that 
>> both have the same date.
>>
>>
>> So, is it OK, that I performed this update? Why nothing was shown up in yumex?
> 
> It will change your yum-conf to point to the 4x area vs the 43 area.  The 
> net effect of this is that when we release 44 and beyond yum will 
> automatically upgrade you to that newer version.
> 
> I will let Troy answer more as he wrote that rpm.


However, will it let yum provide the 4.3 errata and not the 4.4 beta updates?