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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:05:43 -0500
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Hi,
Yes, it looks like you are all upgraded to S.L. 4.1, and I believe 
everything should be pointing to the correct repo's.

Troy

Vaibhav Vaidya wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I try to follow the upgrade procedure you
> recommended, I get the message:
>  package yum-conf-41-4.SL is already installed
> Does this mean my yum is set up to update to sl41?
> 
> I did yum update, it updated only 7 packages. However,
> I should note here that a couple of days ago I had
> updated my system from the SL repos using up2date,
> which had installed 143 packages... does this mean
> that I have a complete system from SL repos?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Vaibhav
> 
> --- Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Livio B wrote:
>>
>>>What is the recommended way to upgrade from SL4.0
>>
>>?
>>
>>>Will "yum update" do it?
>>
>>That will soon (within two weeks) be on the "How To
>>Upgrade To The 
>>Latest Release" web page at
>>
> 
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade
> 
>>But the steps will be similar to what they are for
>>SL3.0.x.  But the 
>>first step will be a different link.  you will do
>>
>>rpm -Uvh 
>>
> 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm
> 
>>yum update yum
>>yum update
>>
>>If you just do a 'yum update' without updating your
>>yum-conf, then you 
>>will still be at S.L. 4.0.  That is one of the ways
>>that we are 
>>different that CentOS.  We have several experiments
>>and sites that want 
>>to sit at a certain release and only get the
>>security updates.  They 
>>don't want to automatically be upgraded to the
>>latest release.  So we 
>>make the updating to a different release a manual
>>process.
>>
>>We are working on a way so that people who do want
>>to just automatically 
>>be moved up to the latest release, can have this
>>functionality.  But 
>>that will be a couple weeks  away.
>>
>>Troy

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