Ya know, I THOUGHT that this was the one release where I got this right 
... but *sigh* ... oh well.
In the end I had a bad link for 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm
It has been fixed.

I see from the other e-mails that you have already gotten upgraded, but 
just so that you, and others, know, your original starting point of doing
rpm -Uvh 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm

now works again.

Thanks for letting us know.
Troy

Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> I tried to follow the directions of the 
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade for 
> upgrading to SL 4.1 from 4, however rpm fails for both statements (4.x 
> and 41):
> 
> 
> [root@chrome ~]# rpm -Uvh 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> 
> Retrieving 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> 
> error: skipping 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
> 
> [root@chrome ~]# rpm -Uvh 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> 
> Retrieving 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> 
> error: skipping 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/41/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm 
> - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
> 
> [root@chrome ~]#
> 
> 
> Any ideas on how to safely upgrade?


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