Re: Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-20 Thread Yasha Karant
I used the term "dead".  SL7 (and earlier?) is still active.  By dead, I did not mean SL 7, I meant SL in general for the future.   As I understand the situation, Fermilab/CERN (and thus the HEP community upon which many of us are "piggybacking" -- not freeloading if one is paying taxes to a

Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-20 Thread Pwillis
Hello, Is Scientific Linux still active? There was another message that alluded to ’SL’ being ‘dead’. Installing this on a diskless node system is not an option if the distribution is no longer supported. Thanks fort any info, Peter

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] MATE desktop upgrade fail SL7

2020-02-20 Thread Yasha Karant
As root, I attempted to follow your suggestion.  As you can read below, this results in changes to 75 different packages.  Before I will do this, I need to understand if the result will be "stable" and still "fully" operational? Should I just leave things alone for now until I switch either to

Re: disabling the mirror list

2020-02-20 Thread Steven C Timm
Try to do yum --disablerepo=* localinstall and see if that helps If it does then you ahve to look in each *.repo file and disable them all in turn. Steve From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Ken Teh