On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:

> On 07/26/2011 12:48 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> On 07/21/2011 11:03 AM, Dormition Skete wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> We already have a server using SL6.0. I see that 6.1 is probably
>>> going to be coming out soon. If we just keep our server updated,
>>> will it automatically "become" a 6.1 server, or do we need to
>>> download a new 6.1 DVD when it comes out, and go through the upgrade
>>> process to make the server 6.1?
>>>
>>> Any help with this will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> This is one place where Scientific Linux differs from RHEL.
>>
>> The default setting for Scientific Linux is for you to "sit on a
>> release". This means that you do not automatically update to the next
>> release, unless you want to. So if you install SL 5.4, you will stay at
>> SL 5.4, getting security updates, until you manually update to whichever
>> release you want.
>>
>> If you want the same functionality as RHEL (your machine is
>> automatically updated to the latest release) you need to install
>> yum-conf-sl6x.
>> yum-conf-sl6x
>>
>> Troy
>
> Will yum-conf-sl6x automatically update to the latest production release
> (e.g., SL 6.1) but will not update to beta/testing/release candidates?

It updates to the latest production release.

> I assume that one can pick and choose -- for example, if one is running
> a higher (later) revision kernel and kernel firmware than the production
> release, one may simply skip the kernel portion of the update.

Note that the kernel is never updated automatically.   This is controlled by
the contents of the "EXCLUDE" line in /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate .


>
> Yasha Karant
>

-Connie Sieh