Creating Installation Medium for Scientific Linux, 6.0 verses 6x

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I'd like to create a new Installation Medium using Scientific Linux. For
simplicity, I'd prefer to use a single Installation Medium instead of two
or more, but I can't figure out how to get the variables to work.

The paths on the FTP mirrors look like this example.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.5

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x

The standard pattern of
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/pub/scientific/$major.$minor/$arch/os
doesn't encompass the latter two URLs because it expects a pattern like
'$major.$minor'. Is there a way to create a single Installation Medium with
a URL that encompasses all 4 examples that I provide above?

Thank you,

-= Stefan

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> The standard pattern of
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/pub/scientific/$major.$minor/$arch/os
> doesn't encompass the latter two URLs because it expects a pattern like
> '$major.$minor'. Is there a way to create a single Installation Medium with
> a URL that encompasses all 4 examples that I provide above?

Hey,

currently this is not possible as we hardcode the dot there. You could
maybe drop $minor and only use $major editing all the default Media.
Minor is not required field AFAIK.

You could try to drop the dot if $minor is not present since this should
be standard ERB syntax. Your URL would look ugly tho. I am not sure if
ERB is allowed in media or not.

ยทยทยท -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal