On 04/04/2012 09:06 PM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> I use the instructions in the URL below and tweaked the process a bit
> for some local issues I have. I found that on some systems the rather
> long list of packages it wants to update can cause yum to get a bit
> confused. So I loop through the alphabet one letter at a time running
> "yum -y --releasever=6.2 update a\*", then b\*, c\* etc. That keeps yum
> happy. After that the only packages left are a few with capital letters
> or numerals at the beginning of the package name. Also had an issue with
> autofs, so I grab a copy of the new autofs rpm and update it locally
> before beginning the process.
>
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.6x
>

Stephen,

That's a handy link to pass out to people. And its on the sl website -- 
who'd a thought to look there of all places!  (O.o)

I'm curious about your yum confusion problem. Are you using any 
repositories external to SL or EPEL? And, of course, I'd really be 
interested if you have a logged example of the problem occurring or 
maybe a way to reproduce it.