On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm using a beta or what...
>
> The ISO I downloaded was from:
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/scientific/6/x86_64/iso/
>
> I downloaded SL-61-x86_64-2011-11-09-Install-DVD.iso then installed
> yum-conf-sl6x. The stock repos enabled in sl.repo point to 6rolling.

Oh. That means that you are using the beta version.

> Interestingly enough though, changing from 6x to 6rolling and trying a
> distribution-syncronisation shows only a handful of packages to change.

That's strange. You said before that you are on rolling release, and
now you are trying to change your repos from 6x to 6rolling. :)
Anyways, as I can see it, you need to point your repos to 6x (or 6.1),
by installing yum-conf-sl6x for example (it states in its description
that it will point everything to the last stable release which is 6.1
now, but I've never tried that package.) and do the  `yum
distro-sync'.

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SY, Ilya A. Otyutskiy aka Sharp