Yasha Karant writes:
> a minor release could be handled through the distribution update
> mechanism without requiring a re-install.

I agree - in fact, going from 5.5 to 5.6 just now updated only a couple
hundred rpms.  I would expect the beta->release transition to have even
less of an impact.

For example, I grabbed sl-release-5.6-1.i386.rpm and
yum-conf-56-1.SL.noarch.rpm from the 5.6 release directory, then 
rpm -Uvh'd them.  Check that all the repos you like are enabled 
(rpm will leave you nice .rpmsave files in /etc/yum.repo.d to remind 
you), then:

  yum clean all
  yum update -y yum rpm
  yum clean all
  rpm --rebuilddb
  yum update -y

If it didn't pick up a new kernel, you don't even need to reboot
afterwards, although it's probably a good idea just in case.


-- 
 	    Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
	    		    [log in to unmask]
		       http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/