On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > John Haggerty wrote: > > I'm pretty new to yum, so can anyone say whether there are any > > subtleties to upgrading SL 4.0 or 4.1 to SL 4.2 using yum? The nicely > > detailed "How To Upgrade To The Latest Release" can clearly be adapted > > to this task, but are there any gotchas when you do that? > > > This one works OK for upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2: > > > 1) yum update > 2) yum clean all > 3) rpm -Uvh > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/42/i386/SL/RPMS/yum-conf-42-3.SL.noarch.rpm > 4) yum update yum > > [reboot] > Should not really need this step. Should not hurt either. > 5) yum upgrade > 6) yum clean all > > [reboot] > > > Replace the ftp URL to the corresponding one for upgrading to 4.1 from 4.0. I do not know > if a direct upgrade can be done from 4.0 to 4.2. It should work. > -Connie Sieh