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 go
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
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
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
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I tried to do a yum localinstall somename.rpm and yum went out looking for
mirrors. I have a machine behind a nat box that restricts outbound access so it
is timing out trying to reach https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ftp.scientificlinux.org&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=