Hi Paul,

Paul Jochum wrote:
> Hi Connie and Troy:
> 
> Just wanted to pass on some suggestions for corrections to the following 
> website:
> 
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade
> 
> 1) The location of the rpm for yum-conf is different.  The web site 
> lists it as:
>    linux/scientific/30x/i386/misc/RPMS/
>    and I found it under:
>    linux/scientific/30x/i386/SL/RPMS/
>    (this was true for the YUM section, I assume the APT section is the 
> same)

Actually, I had forgotten to make the link back to the yum-conf and 
apt-sourcelist.  I have made the link, so now the docuementation is 
correct again.

> 2) Step 8 of YUM (and step 12 of APT) lists /bin/reboot, it should be 
> /sbin/reboot
> 

Fixed

>    Also, in my installation, I found that in grub (/boot/grub/menu.lst), 
> the menu was not updated to reflect 3.0.5 (still read 3.0.4).  I don't 
> think this was a script problem, but you might want to include a note in 
> step 10 of YUM (and step 7 of APT) telling people to update grub for this.
> 

I put a little blurb in for that.  The problem stems from the kernel 
being updated before sl-release is.  In some cases the kernel doesn't 
get updated, so grub.conf has no reason to be changed according to yum 
and apt.

>    Thanks for the hard work in putting this release out.  Let me know if 
> you have any questions or corrections.
> 
> Paul Jochum
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You're very welcome.  And thank you for letting us know about the fixes 
needed.

Troy
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