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Re: sl6.1 and sl6x
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Tanmoy Chatterjee <[log in to unmask]>
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Tanmoy Chatterjee <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:41:22 +0530
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:
>
>> Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need
>> to enable only of these two or both?
>
> sl6x is a symbolic link to the "current" release.  So at the moment sl6x
> points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release.  When we release sl6.2
> then sl6x will point to sl6.2 .
>
> So you need to pick 1 .  If you pick sl6x you will updated via the yum cron
> job to the "next" release when it is released.
Thanks for the elaboration - so it is a good idea to enable the SL6x
repositories instead of SL6.1.
One more thing I want to know is "fastbugs" updates are safe to install?
>
> -Connie Sieh
>>
>> Thanks for any suggetion.
>>
>

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