On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jan Kundrát <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi there, > I've got a fresh install of SL5.5, and would like to set it up to use > the "5x" repositories, whatever they are (or, to be more precise, I want > this machine to receive updates from new releases as they come, and I > think that replacing yum's conf files is the way to go). The most > straightforward way is, I guess, replacing the yum-conf-55 package with > yum-conf-5x. However, yum won't allow me to do that: If you haven't much time invested in the install, you might want to reinstall, otherwise you could edit the .repo files. YMMV. This is from a machine installed via boot.iso and pointed to slrolling: [vaden@sophia ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo [sl-base] name=SL 5 base baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/$basearch/SL http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/$basearch/SL http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/$basearch/SL ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/$basearch/SL #mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-54.txt enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 # To use priorities you must have yum-priorities installed priority=10 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-sl5 file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5