Look at your /var/log/yum.log. It's possible that since you have the slrelease set to 7x, all the rpms from the next release have already been automatically updated for you before you did anything, and that the sl-release already said 7.1 before you tried to do the update. I have no direct experience with 7.0->7.1 but that is the way it works in 5 and 6.
Steve Timm ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ria Caussyn [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 12:03 PM To: scientific-linux-users Subject: parameters for yum upgrade Apologies for the silly question. First time I've attempted to do an upgrade.. going from an install of 7.0 to 7.1 In /etc/yum/vars, I have releasever=7, slreleasever=7x. yum-conf-sl7x is installed. I had redhat epel enabled, but I've disabled it. I pulled in an R stat package from 7.1.. which I wonder if that is somehow contributing to my problem. Anyway.. like I said.. releasever=7, slreasever=7x and then.. yum clean all yum upgrade No packages marked for update. yum clean all yum update sl-release No packaged marked for update. Yet, when I look in /etc/sl-release it says 7.1. /etc/redhat-release also says 7.1. I probably got lazy and sloppy. Fortunately there's nothing I can't live w/o on this laptop. Regards, Ria Caussyn
