Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6 to SL7 transition guides?
> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote: > > If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as > well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good > as gnome was before the great dumbing down that made Gnome 3. I agree. As a small academic department we used to run SL6 on the desktop. We looked at 7 but it has the same problem as 6 of increasingly out of date packages. Now we use Fedora. Getting things to work the way we want is a challenge, the constant changes are a pain, but in return we get up to date everything with most user s/w requests coming straight from standard repos. We even run Fedora on four public facing servers so that everything is consistent. On the server side we still very much use SL6 and are moving to SL7. With a minimal install (and sans Gnome which I don’t like at all) it’s a very nice system. YMMV. The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC013532.
Re: SL6 to SL7 transition guides?
On 31/01/16 20:37, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote: >> >> If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as >> well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good >> as gnome was before the great dumbing down that made Gnome 3. > > I agree. As a small academic department we used to run SL6 on the desktop. We > looked at 7 but it has the same problem as 6 of increasingly out of date > packages. Now we use Fedora. Getting things to work the way we want is a > challenge, the constant changes are a pain, but in return we get up to date > everything with most user s/w requests coming straight from standard repos. > We even run Fedora on four public facing servers so that everything is > consistent. > > On the server side we still very much use SL6 and are moving to SL7. With a > minimal install (and sans Gnome which I don’t like at all) it’s a very nice > system. I don't think I could do Fedora on servers :P I'm moving a lot across to EL7 - and with it, a few systems are giving me grief with custom systemd stuff being required and a few of the old ways not quite working like they used to. Thankfully, I can avoid the abomination that is Gnome 3 and run everything headless - no GUI anywhere near EL7. I'm ok with that. Fedora however, I agree is ok for the desktop - in fact, better than EL7. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL mirror lists with expanded variables
I’m not having any luck with the SL 7.2 .iso images published on the 26th. When using the Everything .iso and the cdrom install method, the packages log has lines like http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found The install completes but the updates are not applied. The relevant Kickstart lines are cdrom repo --name=sl-security --mirrorlist="http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-security-7.txt"; repo --name=sl-fastbugs --mirrorlist="http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-fastbugs-7.txt” When using the net install .iso, and the url install method the anaconda log has the line 23:01:26,368 INFO anaconda: setting status to: Error downloading package metadata The relevant Kickstart lines are url --mirrorlist=http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-7.txt repo --name=sl-security --mirrorlist="http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-security-7.txt"; repo --name=sl-fastbugs --mirrorlist="http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-fastbugs-7.txt"; The install stalls on the first hub. Any suggestions? > On Jan 29, 2016, at 16:33, Pat Riehecky wrote: > > This bug should be fixed in SL7.2, the Release Candidate media is published: > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7.2/ > > Pat > > On 01/29/2016 04:22 PM, Anthony Seward wrote: >> Is there a version of the SL mirror lists (e.g. >> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-fastbugs-7.txt) >> that have the $slreleasever $basearch variables expanded? I’m adding the >> update repos to my kickstart file using the “repo —mirrorlist” option, but >> anaconda does not replace $slreleasever and $basearch in the mirror list. I >> have to use the —baseurl option instead. I’d rather use the mirrorlist, >> though. >> >> TIA, >> Tony >
