It worked out.

Now I am on Scientific linux, yum update passed ok.

We have replaced repo, rhn, yum and release packages muanually.

Then yum update worked.


On 04/28/2011 05:31 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Zoran Ovcin<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>   Recently I installed RHEL6 from an installation DVD (not Beta).
>>
>> I was aware that my yum update will not get the RHN support.
> This will *BREAK* things, such as "redhat-release". Don't do it.
> Migrate the installed packages to SL6 first, especially the
> "*-release" packages.
>
> Also, rip out "yum-rhn-plugin". This will turn off the attempts to
> access the upstream RHN repositories.
>
>
>> Is it possible to use the SL6 rpm repository for updating my system?
>>
>> If yes, what do I have to change in order to be able to do yum update?
> It's a potentially nasty interaction: packages of the same name may
> have subtle discrepancies, and tools that look for /etc/issue.net
> contents will be confused at compilation time.
>
>> Thanks, Zoran Ovcin
>>