On 07/26/2011 03:12 PM, 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?
> 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.
>
> Yasha Karant

You are correct.  It won't update to the latest release until the final 
release.
The key is that yum-conf-sl6x's yum repository is 6x.  The i386 and 
x86_64 directories in 6x (and 4x and 5x) are links to the latest 
release.  So right now those links are still pointing to 6.0, but on 
Thursday (if there are no major bugs) we will change those links to 
point to 6.1.

Troy
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