Troy Dawson wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> "yum upgrade" does not work for SL 4.4 upgrade. I thought it was 
>> supposed that a plain "yum upgrade" would suffice to upgrade from SL 
>> 4.3 to SL 4.4. Isn't this the case, and should I follow the old 
>> upgrade procedure?
> 
> I believe you had asked before if "yum update" or "yum upgrade" would 
> bring S.L. 40rolling to S.L. 4.4, and yes, that will work.
> But it will not bring S.L. 4.3 to S.L. 4.4.
> 
> Now, there is an exception to that.  That is if you have yum-conf-4x 
> installed.  Which is always pointing to 4x.  Then you should just be 
> able to do a "yum update", or actually nothing at all, the nightly yum 
> will update you.
> Except we haven't moved that link yet.  I was actually planning on 
> waiting a week.  The only reason I was going to wait was because we 
> thought people would want to wait a little bit.
> But then again, if you wanted to wait a little bit, you wouldn't have 
> installed yum-conf-4x.
> I can move the link now if you want.  Anybody else have an opinion, move 
> the link now or wait a week?


Yes, myself have yum-conf-4x-1-5.SL.noarch installed, and was expecting upgrade to work 
immediately. However waiting for a week, is also OK for me.  :-)