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Re: Upgrading from 4.x to 4.2 with yum
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:53:32 +1000
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Hi John,

> I'm pretty new to yum, so can anyone say whether there are any 
> subtleties to upgrading SL 4.0 or 4.1 to SL 4.2 using yum?  The 
> nicely detailed  "How To Upgrade To The Latest Release" can clearly 
> be adapted to this task, but are there any gotchas when you do that?

The last time I did a 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade using yum, I did it through the
ATrpms repo. It worked flawlessly, actually, I thought I did something wrong
because it was too easy, but well and behold, I have multiple SL 4.1 systems
running without issues.

Michael.

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