FYI,

I needed to do a "yum clean all" before the "yum update", to clear the 
metadata file checksums :)

-chris

On 11-07-28 11:33 AM, Dan M wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:21 +0000, Les Fairall wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> See Troy's response from a few days ago in the message below
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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