On 04/02/15 17:29, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote: > Hi, > I have several different releases of Scientific Linux running, and now one of > my spare-fileservers is repowerd again > Then I found out it is still running SL 5.3, so I would like to update to > 5.11, but ScienticfLinux.org in its FAQ only mentions: > >> > How do I update to the latest release? > > To upgrade from SL 5.5 (or any older SL 5 release) to the latest SL 5, > simply install yum-conf-sl5x > To upgrade from SL 6.1 (or any older SL 6 release) to the latest SL 6, > simply install yum-conf-sl6x > Upgrades between major versions (from SL 5 to SL 6, or SL 6 to SL 7) are > not supported. > > Starting with Scientific Linux 5.9 and Scientific Linux 6.4, the 'x' repo is > installed by default. >> > > So: > # yum install yum-conf-sl5x > > Shows: > "No package yum-conf-sl5x available" (from ftp1.scientificlinux.org)
Without installing the yum-conf-5x package, you can most likely do an upgrade doing: yum --releasever=5.11 update sl-release yum clean all yum update I've never done such big gaps like you're doing here, but I'd expect this would work just as well. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
