Hi Semi! On 2012.07.18 at 16:37:31 +0300, Semi wrote next:
> > 1) When the SL6.3 is expected? Centos 6.3 already exists. *sigh* I like SL mailing lists so much because people here are very thoughtful and there isn't storm of similar questions, irritated people and rude answers like during Centos 6.0/6.1 "yet to be released" times; I'd love if this ML could stay nice and calm and there won't be any more similar questions until actual release. I don't blame you for asking this, just hope there won't be any more similar questions. Anyhow, if you *really-really* feel like trying out something that feels like SL6.3 and don't mind it'll break your system, you can try to do this on some non-production system to try out SL6.3 beta. This is NOT recommended and NOT supported, also you really might have problems upgrading to 6.3 final after these steps - but if you feel like toying with your system a bit, why not? If you discover some bug you can help testers, too. Just report it carefully and don't complain that you discovered it :) --- (don't do this on production systems) --- # yum clean all # yum --releasever=6rolling update --- (don't do this on production systems) --- Some external repos are incompatible with this style of upgrade so you might have to turn them off with --disablerepo=... (in my case, I had to disable pgdg91). Read ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/os/SL_6_3_ALPHA_BETA_CHANGES and make sure you really understand implications of installing beta version. There really is no point in doing this on almost any production system because most important security fixes from 6.3 were backported to 6.2 already. However, if you are eager to get the taste of 6.3, feel free to do it, it's here and it works (at least for me). -- Vladimir
