>On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:16, Markus Neteler 
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have updated from the previous to the current 5.x SL 
>version following
>> this procedure
>>
>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x
>> -> "For those a little more cautious"
>
>I have made another test, and found (at least) 650 packages 
>not being updated:
>
>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n'
>| grep ' 2008 ' | wc -l
>650

Not exactly a big deal. My machine has 690 packages that have a build
date before or equal to 2008, so a lot of things just simply haven't
needed to be updated.

>
>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n'
>| grep ' 2008 ' | head -2
>sed was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:50 PM CEST
>libXfont was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:51 PM CEST

These two haven't been updated in forever

>
>In Summer 2008 we installed the machine... how to enforce the 
>full upgrade to
>SL5.5?
>
>I also tried to update again:
>
>yum update
>Loaded plugins: kernel-module
>http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/x86_64/SL/re
>podata/repomd.xml:
>[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
>Trying other mirror.
>sl-base
>                | 2.1 kB     00:00
>sl-base/primary_db
>                | 2.0 MB     00:02
>http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/x86_64/updat
>es/security/repodata/repomd.xml:
>[Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
>Trying other mirror.
>sl-security
>                | 1.9 kB     00:00
>sl-security/primary_db
>                | 309 kB     00:00
>Setting up Update Process
>No Packages marked for Update
>

Might want to get a working external network connection first!

>
>thanks
>Markus
>

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