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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:11:07 -0700
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:35:19PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 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
>


A corrected package is coming out?


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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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