Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, September 19, 2011 09:09:45 PM you wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: It is not unsupported. You will get security updates but will not get the new features for each of the new point releases. ... In my opeinion and experience, it's a

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Monday, September 19, 2011 09:09:45 PM you wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: It is not unsupported.  You will get security updates but will not get the new features for each of the

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-19 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjeebum@gmail.com  wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Siehcs...@fnal.gov  wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote:           This method here is different! Now if I enable SL6.1 repositories

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-19 Thread Yasha Karant
On 09/19/2011 05:07 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjeebum@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjeebum@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, jdowj...@earthlink.net wrote: This method

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-19 Thread Connie Sieh
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrot= e: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wr= ote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Have really got confused after going through your entire post - so I am asking again - is it better to enable SL6X than SL6.1? If you stick with SL6.1 (or SL6.2 or ... ) you will get security updates only. If you go with SL6X you alse get feature

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread Yasha Karant
? Yasha Karant On 09/18/2011 12:15 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Have really got confused after going through your entire post - so I am asking again - is it better to enable SL6X than SL6.1? If you stick with SL6.1 (or SL6.2 or ... ) you will get

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread jdow
On 2011/09/18 10:00, Yasha Karant wrote: A small side question: if SL6X happens to be pointing to SL6.m for some m (currently 2), after the update/enhancement will the target now display SL6.m as the installed release? Yes. That is what happened here upgrading from 6.0-6.1 via Yum. cat

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
PM, Tanmoy Chatterjeebum@gmail.com  wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Siehcs...@fnal.gov  wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-18 Thread jdow
Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 . If you pick sl6x you

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-17 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release.  So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release.  When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point to sl6.2 . So you need to pick 1 .  If you

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-17 Thread jdow
Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we release sl6.2 then sl6x will point

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-17 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
:36 PM, Connie Siehcs...@fnal.gov  wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release.  So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since

sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? Thanks for any suggetion.

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Connie Sieh
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release. So at the moment sl6x points to sl6.1 since sl6.1 is the current release. When we

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Tanmoy Chatterjee
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two or both? sl6x is a symbolic link to the current release.  So at the moment sl6x

Re: sl6.1 and sl6x

2011-09-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Tanmoy Chatterjee bum@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote: Is there any difference between Sl6.1 and SL6x repositories? Do I need to enable only of these two