On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 02:31 AM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:

>> Question 2: The default *.repo uses the $releasever variable, which is
>> resolved to "6.0". If we plan to always have the newest (minor) version
>> after
>> every update, I think I have to replace that. Is there an other variable
>> for
>> that or do I have to hardcode it?
>>
>
> There are two ways to do this.
> 1 - Hardcode it to point to 6x or 6
> (Will have to do this after each update)
> 2 - yum install yum-conf-sl6x
> (This installs another yum yum repository that points to 6x.  Because it is
> separate from sl-release, it can remain constant what the sl-release is
> updated.)

Troy, you could have referred to your own FAQ [1]  :-)

By the way, are you going to update it to include 6.x? There seems to
be many "former" CentOS users and this is one of the things that are
different between the two distros.  In CentOS, 'yum update'
automatically takes the system to the latest point release. So, the
description in the FAQ :

"It is not required that administrators upgrade their release, because
the security errata will be updated for all releases."

is a rather new concept for people who are new to SL.

Akemi

[1] https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x