On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:59, Kinzel, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>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)

You are right:

basesystem: Build Date: Thu 05 Apr 2007 12:08:59 AM CEST
make: Build Date: Thu 22 May 2008 12:39:33 AM CEST
postfix: Build Date: Fri 15 Aug 2008 06:48:21 PM CEST
zlib: Build Date: Fri 06 Apr 2007 09:33:04 PM CEST
...

for i in basesystem postfix zlib ; do rpm -qa | grep $i ; done
basesystem-8.0-5.1.1.noarch
postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64
zlib-1.2.3-3.x86_64
zlib-devel-1.2.3-3.i386
zlib-devel-1.2.3-3.x86_64
zlib-1.2.3-3.i386

I don't want to be a pain, just understand. If above versions are ok, then
I am fine (I have read Troy's recent email before sending this).

>>> 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

I have added the IP to /etc/hosts which helps.

thanks for your assistance,
Markus