On Fri, 25 May 2012, Stefan Lasiewski wrote: > --e89a8f6475033424bb04c0e5ae31 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I have a question regarding the various RPM repos for the SL6. > > Some of the repos have a major.minor version number: > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/ > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/ > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/ > > And then there are repos for the '6' and '6x' releases: > > 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" . > > and a repo named '6rolling': > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/ > > My questions: > > - 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. > > 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/ . > We will update the faq. This is a very good question for it. > Thank you, > > -= Stefan > > -Connie Sieh