FYI,
I needed to do a "yum clean all" before the "yum update", to clear the
metadata file checksums :)
-chris
On 11-07-28 11:33 AM, Dan M wrote:
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:21 +0000, Les Fairall wrote:
To upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 is it as simple as RHEL... with RHEL6.0 it
seemed to happen when i did a yum update. Or do I have to to more to
upgrade an
existing 6.0 box? Thanks for all the good work!
See Troy's response from a few days ago in the message below
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Troy Dawson<daw...@fnal.gov>
To: Yasha Karant<ykar...@csusb.edu>
Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov<scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov>
Subject: Re: SL Minor Version Upgrade Question
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:26:27 -0500
On 07/26/2011 03:12 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 07/26/2011 12:48 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
On 07/21/2011 11:03 AM, Dormition Skete wrote:
Hello.
We already have a server using SL6.0. I see that 6.1 is probably
going to be coming out soon. If we just keep our server updated,
will it automatically "become" a 6.1 server, or do we need to
download a new 6.1 DVD when it comes out, and go through the upgrade
process to make the server 6.1?
Any help with this will be appreciated.
Hi,
This is one place where Scientific Linux differs from RHEL.
The default setting for Scientific Linux is for you to "sit on a
release". This means that you do not automatically update to the next
release, unless you want to. So if you install SL 5.4, you will stay at
SL 5.4, getting security updates, until you manually update to whichever
release you want.
If you want the same functionality as RHEL (your machine is
automatically updated to the latest release) you need to install
yum-conf-sl6x.
yum-conf-sl6x
Troy
Will yum-conf-sl6x automatically update to the latest production release
(e.g., SL 6.1) but will not update to beta/testing/release candidates?
I assume that one can pick and choose -- for example, if one is running
a higher (later) revision kernel and kernel firmware than the production
release, one may simply skip the kernel portion of the update.
Yasha Karant
You are correct. It won't update to the latest release until the final
release.
The key is that yum-conf-sl6x's yum repository is 6x. The i386 and
x86_64 directories in 6x (and 4x and 5x) are links to the latest
release. So right now those links are still pointing to 6.0, but on
Thursday (if there are no major bugs) we will change those links to
point to 6.1.
Troy
