Jon Peatfield wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Connie Sieh wrote: > >> Developers, >> >> Scientific Linux "SL 5.1" ALPHA for i386 is now available for testing. > > Just another datapoint for you. > > I unexpectedly managed to get hold of a test Dell Optiplex 755 yesterday > (I wasn't expecting it to turn up 'til next week when I'll be over in DC). > > SL 5.0 network installs don't work on the 755 because of the new Intel > pro/1000 chipset that Dell chose to use so I wasn't expecting 5.1 to like > it but in fact anaconda auto detected the card and decided to use the > e1000e driver which worked fine (apparently the e1000 driver needs to be > > 7.6.9 to support this chipset). > > Anyway a couple of test kickstart installs of the i386 version worked > flawlessly and it didn't even mind being pointed at our local yum repos > which include SL50 updates as well as locally added packages. > > When I get back from my holiday I'll be able to do some more significant > testing (and probably on x86_64 too when that alpha is released). > > Finally a question I'm not sure if I've asked before. Is there a reason > how/why /etc/yum.conf contains the line: > > distroverpkg=redhat-release > > and while there isn't such a package $releasever in a repo config gets set > to the version of sl-release (which does *provide* redhat-release). > > Sadly $releasever doesn't match the directory names in the SL trees so one > can't simply have a repo with a line like: > > baseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$releasever/$basearch/SL > > btw is there a _good_ way to add something to tell yum that I have a local > mirror of a repo without having to edit the repos.d/ files each time? > > -- Jon Hmmm ... something that needs some thinking about ... I haven't tried any of this, I'm just thinking out loud ... What if in /etc/yum.conf we had the variable repourl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/ and then in the yum.repo's you could have baseurl=$repourl/51/$basearch/SL Do you think that would confuse people? What about having a comment at the top that says something like # To change the repourl you need to edit /etc/yum.conf I'm still thinking about what to do about the $releasever because that doesn't match where we actually have our distributions. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________