This is an old post dated 16/09/2011 - this might help you. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM Subject: Re: sl6.1 and sl6x To: Tanmoy Chatterjee <[log in to unmask]> Cc: [log in to unmask] On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: > Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need > to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the "current" release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 . If you pick sl6x you will updated via the yum cron job to the "next" release when it is released. -Connie Sieh > > > Thanks for any suggetion. >