Troy Dawson wrote on 12/4/2008 4:14 PM:
Hi Larry,
Yes, there is a difference, but at the beginning they are the same.
If you do a "yum upgrade" and it replaced yum-conf-44 with yum-conf-4x,
that is going to keep you at 4x. Which means that when we have our new
release 4.8, and we move the link of 4x to point to 48, then your system
is going to automatically be updated to 48. This might be what some
people want, which is why there is a yum-conf-4x.
If you just use the long rpm command
rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
Then that will just get you the normal yum-conf wich is in the latest
release. So currently that will install yum-conf-4.7. That will then
update you to SL 4.7. But when we release 4.8, and the 4x link get's
changed, you will not be automatically updated to 4.8, but will still be
at 4.7. This might be what some people want, which is why yum-xonf-4x
isn't installed by default.
Does that help?
Troy
Yep!
After thinking a bit on it after my posting, I surmised that that's
exactly what you have just described.
Now, (surmising further) if I had just done a 'yum upgrade' rather
than the long rpm command, and I'm now at SL47, and *maybe* do not
wish to automatically go to SL48 when it's out, can I issue the
long rpm command and thus download the yum-conf-4.7 replacing the
yum-conf-4x and I'm done? Or do I need to do something after that
like a 'yum clean all'? I suspect not but thought I'd ask.
Thanks!
- Larry
P. Larry Nelson wrote:
This is most likely a Troy or Connie question but thought I'd post
here in case others might have the same question burning in the
back of their brains.
Is there much, if any, difference between upgrading from one minor
release to another (say, SL44 to SL46) using the rpm command as
stated in the instructions in the HowTo here:
(https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.4x)
and just doing a 'yum upgrade; yum clean all; yum update' ?
It seems that the 'yum upgrade' grabbed the yum-conf-4x.noarch 4:1-5.SL
and replaced the yum-conf.noarch 4:44-1.SL, which is what I assume
the lonnng rpm command would do?
Thanks!
- Larry
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