David Nitz wrote > Hi, > > I did (or tried to do) a yum-update upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3. > The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ point to the 5.3 repositories, > but /etc/issue still says SL 5.2. Yumex does not show any > available updates. > > Is the wrong /etc/issue an oversight in > the upgrade, or does it indicate a problem? > > Hi We have been successfully updated from SL5.0 to SL5.1 and from SL5.1 to SL5.2 (both i386 and x86_64) so far, by 1) Changing /etc/yum.repos.d/files point to the 5.0 -> 5.1 (or 5.1-> 5.2) 2) yum update yum 3) yum clean all 4) yum update (This method seems to be not supported officially. So please try at your own risk) However, from SL5.2 to SL5.3, yum update method as mentioned above for several nodes (in which packages are not fully installed) succeeded . But on the several nodes (full-installed node) this method failed with the conflicts relating to the Perl modules. (From SL5.2 to SL5.3) yum update : Transaction Summary =============================================================================== Install 14 Package(s) Update 422 Package(s) Remove 1 Package(s) Total download size: 1.2 G Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/List/Util.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Man.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Scalar/Util.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perl.pod from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perlvar.pod from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 : file /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 file /usr/share/man/man3/utf8.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 Does anyone know the workaround for this problem ? Takashi Ichihara