On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> Nathan Moore wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Could someone point me to the instructions for upgrading to SL5.1 from
>>>> 5.0 via YUM?  Is it as simple as "yum upgrade" ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x
>>>
>>> Let me know if there are any mistakes in that document, it just got made.
>>
>>
>> I installed yum-conf-51-1.SL myself to do that. I suppose it is OK too.
>
> In the above link,
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
> is mentioned, however
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/SL/yum-conf-5x-1-3.SL.noarch.rpm

It automatically does a upgrade to the next version.  It points yum to the 
5x area of the ftp site which always has the latest version in it.  This 
allows the user who always want to have the latest to make that easier to 
do.  No need to update to the new yum.conf and then do a upgrade.

-Connie Sieh

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