i can't speak officially on this but it is my understanding and experience that when upstream tags a package with el7_1 in the name such as the systemd below, SL keeps that same name tag, so I would expect to see el7_1 tags in the names of some packages like you are seeing.
Steve Timm ________________________________ From: Ria Caussyn [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 9:59 PM To: Steven C Timm Cc: scientific-linux-users Subject: Re: parameters for yum upgrade Hi, Steven, it appears that's what happened - an upgrade happened w/o me quite being aware, prob Apr 15. A little odd, I was expecting to see some sl7_1 packages in there but they are all either el7_1 or sl7. But, maybe I didn't have any SL packages that had 7.1 versions. For example: Apr 11 18:37:15 Updated: firefox-31.6.0-2.el7_1.x86_64 Apr 15 22:26:07 Updated: systemd.x86_64 208-20.el7_1.2 I don't see any sl7_1 references. Just this sort of thing: Apr 15 22:26:23 Updated: libreport-filesystem.x86_64 2.1.11-21.sl7 Apr 15 22:26:23 Updated: libreport-python.x86_64 2.1.11-21.sl7 Thanks for your time, Ria On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Steven C Timm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Look at your /var/log/yum.log. It's possible that since you have the slrelease set to 7x, all the rpms from the next release have already been automatically updated for you before you did anything, and that the sl-release already said 7.1 before you tried to do the update. I have no direct experience with 7.0->7.1 but that is the way it works in 5 and 6. Steve Timm ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Ria Caussyn [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 12:03 PM To: scientific-linux-users Subject: parameters for yum upgrade Apologies for the silly question. First time I've attempted to do an upgrade.. going from an install of 7.0 to 7.1 In /etc/yum/vars, I have releasever=7, slreleasever=7x. yum-conf-sl7x is installed. I had redhat epel enabled, but I've disabled it. I pulled in an R stat package from 7.1.. which I wonder if that is somehow contributing to my problem. Anyway.. like I said.. releasever=7, slreasever=7x and then.. yum clean all yum upgrade No packages marked for update. yum clean all yum update sl-release No packaged marked for update. Yet, when I look in /etc/sl-release it says 7.1. /etc/redhat-release also says 7.1. I probably got lazy and sloppy. Fortunately there's nothing I can't live w/o on this laptop. Regards, Ria Caussyn
