Vaibhav, On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Vaibhav Vaidya wrote: > Hi, > > If I try to follow the upgrade procedure you > recommended, I get the message: > package yum-conf-41-4.SL is already installed > Does this mean my yum is set up to update to sl41? > > I did yum update, it updated only 7 packages. However, > I should note here that a couple of days ago I had > updated my system from the SL repos using up2date, > which had installed 143 packages... does this mean > that I have a complete system from SL repos? I would say so. -Connie Sieh > > Thanks, > --Vaibhav > > --- Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Livio B wrote: > > > What is the recommended way to upgrade from SL4.0 > > ? > > > Will "yum update" do it? > > > > That will soon (within two weeks) be on the "How To > > Upgrade To The > > Latest Release" web page at > > > https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade > > > > But the steps will be similar to what they are for > > SL3.0.x. But the > > first step will be a different link. you will do > > > > rpm -Uvh > > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm > > > > yum update yum > > yum update > > > > If you just do a 'yum update' without updating your > > yum-conf, then you > > will still be at S.L. 4.0. That is one of the ways > > that we are > > different that CentOS. We have several experiments > > and sites that want > > to sit at a certain release and only get the > > security updates. They > > don't want to automatically be upgraded to the > > latest release. So we > > make the updating to a different release a manual > > process. > > > > We are working on a way so that people who do want > > to just automatically > > be moved up to the latest release, can have this > > functionality. But > > that will be a couple weeks away. > > > > Troy > > -- > > __________________________________________________ > > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > > Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >