On Fri, 25 May 2012, Stefan Lasiewski wrote:
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> I have a question regarding the various RPM repos for the SL6.
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> Some of the repos have a major.minor version number:
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> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/
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> And then there are repos for the '6' and '6x' releases:
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> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/
The subdirectories of //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/ just
point to //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/ . This was just
to make it easy to find "6" .
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> and a repo named '6rolling':
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> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/
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> My questions:
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> - What are the differences between these different kinds of repos?
> - When should I be tracking the '6' repository vs the 6.2 repository vs.
> the '6rolling' repository?
6x is a symbolic link that points to the "current" release of 6. This is
so you always "find" the current release. We also provide a "yum-conf"
which which "points" to 6x. When a new "point" release is made all the
systems with their yum-confs "pointing" to 6x will be updated to this
newer version. Note the "non yum-conf 6x" will keep the system at that
point release.
> - What is 6rolling? Is it similar to the Fedora Rawhide development tree?
Yes it is similar to "Rawhide" . "Rawhide" was the inspiration in the
naming of this "test" tree. So you have "Rolling Rolling Rawhide" from
the "song". Also "rolling things" are moving/changing so this goes with
well with use of "rolling" for "alpha/beta" releases .
> With CentOS 5 and SL5, there was never a repository named '5' or '5x', and
> I am just trying to become more familiar with the new way of doing things.
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> Forgive me for asking what might be a simple question. But I cannot find
> any description of the 6rolling or 6x repos on www.scientificlinux.org, or
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/ .
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We will update the faq. This is a very good question for it.
> Thank you,
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> -= Stefan
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-Connie Sieh
