>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
>Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:53 AM
>To: Kinzel, David
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: 5.x upgrade problem
>
>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
>

Again, do rpm -qi on some of these and check the build date (on an upgraded box)

>
>>>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.
>

Troy was changing the DNS entries sometime recently. Might not be updated for you yet.

Try linux9.fnal.gov / 131.225.110.147

>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
>

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