On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> 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?
> 

It will change all occurances of 43 in the yum.repo.d to 4x , 4x at the 
moment is a symbolic link to 43.  But soon it will be a symbolic link to 
44.  Note that errata are released to all 4 type trees.

-Connie