On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> John Haggerty wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
> This one works OK for upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2:
>
>
> 1) yum update
> 2) yum clean all
> 3) rpm -Uvh
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/42/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-42-3.SL.noarch.rpm
> 4) yum update yum
>
> [reboot]
>
Should not really need this step. Should not hurt either.
> 5) yum upgrade
> 6) yum clean all
>
> [reboot]
>
>
> Replace the ftp URL to the corresponding one for upgrading to 4.1 from 4.0. I do not know
> if a direct upgrade can be done from 4.0 to 4.2.
It should work.
>
-Connie Sieh