On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:21 +0000, Les Fairall wrote:
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> To upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 is it as simple as RHEL... with RHEL6.0 it
> seemed to happen when i did a yum update.  Or do I have to to more to
> upgrade an
> existing 6.0 box?  Thanks for all the good work!
> 
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See Troy's response from a few days ago in the message below

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From: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
To: Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: SL Minor Version Upgrade Question
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:26:27 -0500

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