On 07/26/2011 12:48 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
On 07/21/2011 11:03 AM, Dormition Skete wrote:
Hello.
We already have a server using SL6.0. I see that 6.1 is probably
going to be coming out soon. If we just keep our server updated,
will it automatically "become" a 6.1 server, or do we need to
download a new 6.1 DVD when it comes out, and go through the upgrade
process to make the server 6.1?
Any help with this will be appreciated.
Hi,
This is one place where Scientific Linux differs from RHEL.
The default setting for Scientific Linux is for you to "sit on a
release". This means that you do not automatically update to the next
release, unless you want to. So if you install SL 5.4, you will stay at
SL 5.4, getting security updates, until you manually update to whichever
release you want.
If you want the same functionality as RHEL (your machine is
automatically updated to the latest release) you need to install
yum-conf-sl6x.
yum-conf-sl6x
Troy
Will yum-conf-sl6x automatically update to the latest production release
(e.g., SL 6.1) but will not update to beta/testing/release candidates?
I assume that one can pick and choose -- for example, if one is running
a higher (later) revision kernel and kernel firmware than the production
release, one may simply skip the kernel portion of the update.
Yasha Karant
