On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to upgrade my Scientific Linux 4.1 to 4.4 by following
> the instructions on the web
>
>  1.   rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/44/
> i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
>   It works fine.  I have to move those *.rpmnew into their places.
>
>  For the following two steps I get the following
>  2. yum update yum 3. yum update

Step 2.5

    yum clean all

Is needed.  Troy has fixed the web page to include this step as being 
required vs optional.

-Connie Sieh

>
> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>
>
> However, if I do a
>
> yum upgrade
>
> it did upgrade about some 20 packages (probably from the 4.1 repos
> and from the
> scientific Linux ftp site).
>
> I want to mention that I did modify my yum.repos.d configuration
> files and maybe something else that I cannot remember to download
> from my local mirror instead of the default ftp site.
>
> I would appreciate if someone can point me to the right direction.
> Thank you.
>
>
> Zhi-Wei Lu
> Institue for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
> UC Davis                     Phone:    (530) 752-0494
> Davis, CA 95616        Fax:         (530) 752-8894
>