I also didn't do a fresh install for 6.6 to 6.7; it happened
automatically overnight via yum-autoupdate. I then had to downgrade the
glibc rpms to revive some of our software that uses matlab. It may be
fortunate that autoupdates to 6.8 have been blocked by "Metadata file does
not match checksum" in mirrors. I've just changed "enabled=1" to
"enabled=0" in /etc/yum.repos.d/sl6x.repo to allow continued upgrades of
6.7 rpms without moving to 6.8.
Steven Yellin
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016, John Pilkington wrote:
Now that SL 6.8 has been released, many packages in the sl6x-related repos
are shown as upgradeable, but the release announcement still includes the
warning that:
There should be no expectation that a "yum" upgrade to SL 6.8 will work.
A new install is the recommended method to move from "sl6rolling" and the
released SL 6.8.
Does this still apply? When I first saw it I assumed that it referred
specifically to the RCs, but it's still there, post-release. I'm pretty sure
I didn't do a fresh install for 6.6 > 6.7
Thanks,
John Pilkington
