On 04/27/2012 02:26 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> It appears as if the latest SL 5 update uses a different naming convention,
> breaking with the old sequence 5.1, ..., 5.7, it identifies itself as "58".
>
> This broke my private script that looked for sl-release under the name sl-release-5.*
> (the actual name is "sl-release-58-4.sl.noarch", notice no "." between "5" and "8",
> compare to filenames of sl-release for all previous versions of SL4, 5, and 6).
>
> After fixing this, I see that many external yum repositories stopped working
> because they assume the "5.8" name, not "58".
>
> So my inquiring mind wants to know if this change is permanent and SL 59, 510, 511,
> 63, 64, etc are to follow.
>
>
That was a typo, it should have been 5.8

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Pat Riehecky
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