Hi, Yes, it looks like you are all upgraded to S.L. 4.1, and I believe everything should be pointing to the correct repo's. Troy 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? > > 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