Vaibhav,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, 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?

I would say so.

-Connie Sieh
> 
> 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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