On 04/02/15 17:29, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have several different releases of Scientific Linux running, and now one of my spare-fileservers is repowerd again
> Then I found out it is still running SL 5.3, so I would like to update to 5.11, but ScienticfLinux.org in its FAQ only mentions:
> 
>>
> How do I update to the latest release?
> 
>     To upgrade from SL 5.5 (or any older SL 5 release) to the latest SL 5, simply install yum-conf-sl5x
>     To upgrade from SL 6.1 (or any older SL 6 release) to the latest SL 6, simply install yum-conf-sl6x
>     Upgrades between major versions (from SL 5 to SL 6, or SL 6 to SL 7) are not supported.
> 
> Starting with Scientific Linux 5.9 and Scientific Linux 6.4, the 'x' repo is installed by default.
>>
> 
> So:
> # yum install yum-conf-sl5x 
> 
> Shows:
> "No package yum-conf-sl5x available" (from ftp1.scientificlinux.org) 

Without installing the yum-conf-5x package, you can most likely do an
upgrade doing:

   yum --releasever=5.11 update sl-release
   yum clean all
   yum update

I've never done such big gaps like you're doing here, but I'd expect
this would work just as well.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth