As Chris said, we were partially trying to be funny, but humor doesn't always transmit well over the internet. We are ourselves frequent victims of trying our best to communicate things, and receiving objections only after the fact... hence the misguided humor. Still, I'm somewhat serious. I'm the guy who doesn't read the documentation (yep, that guy), so I didn't know I was basically using 6.x until Chris pointed it out... Admittedly, 99.97% of the time that's totally fine, but it's the other 0.03% that can be really painful. I think Chis had the displeasure of running into one of those 0.03% issues pretty recently - you'd have to ask him if you want to know the details. It's mostly just a philosophical thing... I actively chose to install SL 6.4 over installing 6.x, and my choice was nullified without me realizing it. Jonathan From: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:06 PM To: 'Pat Riehecky' Cc: Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare); [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL] SL 6.x enabled as repository in 6.4 It's ok Jonathan and I were just more curious, we missed that in the release notes. The object now is just some good Friday humor for you ;-) - Chris From: Pat Riehecky [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:01 PM To: Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) Cc: Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare); [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL] SL 6.x enabled as repository in 6.4 Can I ask for a bit of info as to why you've got objections? The yum-conf-sl6x package is included by the comps.xml, and not required by any packages. This makes it easy to remove via yum and easy to disable in kickstart via '-yum-conf-sl6x'. For HELiOS, it shouldn't get in the way..... Pat On 10/18/2013 02:44 PM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote: I second that objection ;-) *grin* From: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:40 PM To: Pat Riehecky Cc: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL] SL 6.x enabled as repository in 6.4 Can I object now? :-) From: Pat Riehecky [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 2:37 PM To: Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) Cc: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL] SL 6.x enabled as repository in 6.4 On 10/18/2013 02:20 PM, Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) wrote: I couldn't help but notice that yum-conf-sl6x-1.2 is installed as part of a default install of SL 6.4... is this a new "normal" or just something that was done accidentally while building 6.4? Thanks, Jonathan Hi Jonathan, When 6.4 was in beta there was a question about making '6x' enabled by default. No one objected. This change is noted in the Release Notes. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/sl-release-notes-6.4.html#DiffSL6 Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/ -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/