On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:40, Kinzel, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>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

Here some others:

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n'
| grep ' 2008 ' | grep
'lapack\|zlib\|make\|libxslt\|basesystem\|boost-devel\|postfix\|wireless-tools'
| sort
basesystem was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:32 PM CEST
boost-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:09 PM CEST
boost-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:11 PM CEST
imake was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:28 PM CEST
lapack was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:53 PM CEST
lapack was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:03 PM CEST
libxslt-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:44 PM CEST
libxslt was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:21:55 PM CEST
libxslt was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:04 PM CEST
make was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:52 PM CEST
postfix was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:06 PM CEST
wireless-tools was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:00 PM CEST
wireless-tools was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:26 PM CEST
zlib-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:38 PM CEST
zlib-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:17 PM CEST
zlib was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:43 PM CEST
zlib was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:06 PM CEST


>>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!

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://ftp.scientificlinux.org
It's not just you! http://ftp.scientificlinux.org looks down from here.

ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (72.14.234.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mil01s07-in-f104.1e100.net (72.14.234.104): icmp_seq=1
ttl=54 time=5.82 ms
64 bytes from mil01s07-in-f104.1e100.net (72.14.234.104): icmp_seq=2
ttl=54 time=5.41 ms

Seems to be a different problem.

Markus