On 04/04/2012 07:15 AM, zxq9 wrote:
> 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.
>
I have locally mirrored repos for SL and SL-security.  Plus some of the 
addons, elrepo, epel, and rpmforge.  I've got all three of the external 
repos filtering out quite a few packages that conflict so normal updates 
work pretty cleanly.  I figure that my setup is most likely the cause of 
the issues with yum getting confused, but my workaround keeps it happy 
so I haven't looked into further, and I haven't complained since it's 
likely due to my own set up.

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