Hi Mike,

Michael Hannon wrote:

> Greetings.  On 5 August 2004 Troy Dawon posted the following to this
> list, in response to a question about updating from SL 301 to SL 302:
>
>> But the short answer will be
>>
>>   rpm -Uvh
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/302/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-302-2.SL.noarch.rpm
>>
>>   yum update yum
>>   yum upgrade
>
>
> I'm interested in going from 302 to 303, and I infer that that currently
> means to use the "30rolling" files.  In any event, I tried to upgrade
> the yum configuration that way, but got an error:
>
You will be able to go from 302 to 303 (or 301 to 303) using the
instructions on the how-to when SL 303 comes out.  But, as Connie said,
we're still in rolling right now, and those instuctions only apply to
stable releases.
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade

> [root@UCD-sys root]# rpm -Uvh
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-30rolling-1.SL.noarch.rpm
>
> Retrieving
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-30rolling-1.SL.noarch.rpm
>
> warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.ap5B2j: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 82fd17b2
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>         package yum-conf-302-2.SL (which is newer than
> yum-conf-30rolling-1.SL) is already installed
>
> I didn't see any other yum-conf file in that directory.  I'm evidently
> doing the wrong thing.  Can somebody tell me what I SHOULD be doing?
> Thanks.
>

Well Mike, you are very close.
You should be able to do a
  rpm -e yum-conf
  rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-30rolling-1.SL.noarch.rpm

Don't worry about removing the yum-conf, because you are going to put it
right back on.

>                                        - Mike

Jon mentioned putting an epoch on the 30rolling rpm would always make it
install ahead of the 303 release, but I really don't want to do that.
The yum-conf-30rolling rpm is only used for a couple of weeks until the
release settles down.  Once you put an epoch, or something artificial
into an rpm, then you always have to have it in, and it really is not
worth the hassle that it brings.

Troy