Thanks for the clarification. If I understand right sl6x.repo and sl6.repo won't conflict. From what you and David describe, I bet that many people would have both sl6x.repo and sl6.repo .
Thank you for the quick responses. -= Stefan On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Brandon Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/05/2014 02:56 PM, Stefan Lasiewski wrote: > > I just noticed that some of my Scientific Linux servers appear to have > > duplicate Yum .repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/ : > > > > ``` > > [root@ hostb yum.repos.d]# pwd > > /etc/yum.repos.d > > [root@ hostb yum.repos.d]# ls -ld sl*repo > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1837 Feb 20 2012 sl6x.repo > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1209 Feb 6 16:11 sl-other.repo > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1014 Feb 6 16:11 sl.repo > > [root@ hostb yum.repos.d]# > > ``` > > > > Should my systems have both `sl.repo` and `sl6x.repo`, or will these > > conflict with each other? > > > > I don't understand why the file sl6x.repo was installed at all, but it > > appears that both sl-release & yum-conf-sl6x were installed at install > > time, possibly as part of the @Base or the @Core group. > > > > [root@staffdb02 yum.repos.d]# rpm -q --file /etc/yum.repos.d/sl6x.repo > > yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch > > [root@staffdb02 yum.repos.d]# rpm -q --file /etc/yum.repos.d/sl.repo > > sl-release-6.5-1.x86_64 > > [root@staffdb02 yum.repos.d]# > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > -= Stefan > > > > Scientific Linux traditionally kept you on the point release you > initially installed (e.g. 6.x). This is different from RHEL, which by > default points to a repository containing the latest packages for the > latest point release, keeping you up to date without needed to manually > adjust the repository info. > > The yum-conf-sl6x package provides RHEL like behaviour for updates. > > Brandon Vincent > -- Stefan Lasiewski Email: [email protected] Computer System Engineer III Email: [email protected] Networking, Security, and Servers Group National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC <http://nersc.gov>) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
