On 05/16/2011 06:22 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Zoran Ovcin<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> On 05/15/2011 04:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Zoran Ovcin<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>> It worked out. >>>> >>>> Now I am on Scientific linux, yum update passed ok. >>> Great. What does "yum list extras" say? And did you re-install all >>> your packages, so you're not in license violation with Red Hat ? >>> >> For now, since I hadn't updated RHEL6, only packages that are newer in SL6 >> than matching packages in RHEL6 are updated. But, yum update works. >> >> What is with extras packages? Are they within SL6? Can they be updated also? >> >> Zoran > That command shows RPM's that are not part of your currently enabled > repositories. It's very handy, when switching repositories, to > identify ones that you don't want sticking around. In this case, it > would help reveal packages from RHEL or CentOS or whatever you > switched *from* that had different versions and might cause depencency > conflicts. Here is the output: # yum list extras Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto, protect-packages, refresh-packagekit, : rhnplugin, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: mirror01.th.ifl.net * epel-testing: mirror01.th.ifl.net * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl6x: ftp.scientificlinux.org * sl6x-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org Extra Packages Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-en-US.noarch 1-21.el6 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201009221801.x86_64 acroread.i686 9.4.0-1.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation flash-plugin.x86_64 10.3.162.29-0.1.el6.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-demo.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-demo-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-devel.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-devel-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-plugin.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation java-1.6.0-sun-src.x86_64 1:1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6 @/java-1.6.0-sun-src-1.6.0.22-1jpp.1.el6.x86_64/6Workstation kmod-kspiceusb-rhel60.x86_64 4.9-14.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation libavcore0.x86_64 0.6.1-38.1_git20110115.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation libssh2.x86_64 1.2.7-1.el5.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation libva-0.32.0.1_1.x86_64 0.32.0-3_sds1.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation libva-x11-0.32.0.1_1.x86_64 0.32.0-3_sds1.el6 @atrpms/6Workstation perl-XML-Writer.noarch 0.612-1.el6.rf @rpmforge/6Workstation skype.i586 2.2.0.25-fc10 @/skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586 spice-usb-share.x86_64 4.9-9.el6 @/spice-usb-share-4.9-9.el6.x86_64/6Workstation tetex-xdvi.x86_64 3.0-33.8.el5_5.6 installed virtio-win.noarch 1.1.16-0.el6 @/virtio-win-1.1.16-0.el6.noarch/6Workstation zhongyi-song-fonts.noarch 0.1.20020329.1-15.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation zhongyi-song-fonts-ghostscript.noarch 0.1.20020329.1-15.el6 @SupplementInstallMedia/6Workstation I had some conflicts so I disabled some testing repositories. Is there a repository from which I can update Java? But since I switched to SL, there have been no updates on the SL repo. Is that ok? Zoran -- Zoran Ovcin, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences Serbia, +381-(0)21-485-2298, mailto:[log in to unmask]