On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 18:21 +0000, Les Fairall wrote: > > > To upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 is it as simple as RHEL... with RHEL6.0 it > seemed to happen when i did a yum update. Or do I have to to more to > upgrade an > existing 6.0 box? Thanks for all the good work! > > > > >
See Troy's response from a few days ago in the message below -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Troy Dawson <[email protected]> To: Yasha Karant <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SL Minor Version Upgrade Question Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:26:27 -0500 On 07/26/2011 03:12 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > 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 > >You are correct. It won't update to the latest release until the final >release. >The key is that yum-conf-sl6x's yum repository is 6x. The i386 and >x86_64 directories in 6x (and 4x and 5x) are links to the latest >release. So right now those links are still pointing to 6.0, but on >Thursday (if there are no major bugs) we will change those links to >point to 6.1. > >Troy
