David Nitz wrote
> Hi,
>
> I did (or tried to do) a yum-update upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3.
> The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ point to the 5.3 repositories,
> but /etc/issue still says SL 5.2.  Yumex does not show any
> available updates.
>
> Is the wrong /etc/issue an oversight in
> the upgrade, or does it indicate a problem?
>
>   
Hi

  We have been successfully updated from SL5.0  to SL5.1 and from
SL5.1 to SL5.2 (both i386 and x86_64) so far, by
1) Changing  /etc/yum.repos.d/files  point to the 5.0 -> 5.1 (or 5.1-> 5.2)
2) yum update yum
3) yum clean all
4) yum update
(This method seems to be not supported officially. So please try at your 
own risk)

  However, from SL5.2 to SL5.3, yum update method as mentioned above
for several nodes (in which packages are  not fully installed) succeeded .
But on the several  nodes (full-installed node) this method failed with the
conflicts relating to the Perl modules.

(From SL5.2 to SL5.3)
yum update 
:
Transaction Summary
 ===============================================================================
Install     14 Package(s)       
Update     422 Package(s)       
Remove       1 Package(s)  
Total download size: 1.2 G
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
 
Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/List/Util.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Man.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perl.pod from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perlvar.pod from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  :
  file /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3pm.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
  file /usr/share/man/man3/utf8.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 
conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

Does anyone know the workaround for this problem ?

Takashi Ichihara