On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:59, Kinzel, David <[email protected]> wrote: >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:40, Kinzel, David >><[email protected]> wrote: >>>>On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:16, Markus Neteler >>>><[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have updated from the previous to the current 5.x SL >>>>version following >>>>> this procedure >>>>> >>>>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x >>>>> -> "For those a little more cautious" >>>> >>>>I have made another test, and found (at least) 650 packages >>>>not being updated: >>>> >>>>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on >>%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' >>>>| grep ' 2008 ' | wc -l >>>>650 >>> >>> Not exactly a big deal. My machine has 690 packages that have a build >>> date before or equal to 2008, so a lot of things just simply haven't >>> needed to be updated. >>> >>>> >>>>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on >>%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' >>>>| grep ' 2008 ' | head -2 >>>>sed was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:50 PM CEST >>>>libXfont was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:51 PM CEST >>> >>> These two haven't been updated in forever >> >>Here some others: >> >>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME} was installed on %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' >>| grep ' 2008 ' | grep >>'lapack\|zlib\|make\|libxslt\|basesystem\|boost-devel\|postfix\ >>|wireless-tools' >>| sort >>basesystem was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:32 PM CEST >>boost-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:09 PM CEST >>boost-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:11 PM CEST >>imake was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:28 PM CEST >>lapack was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:53 PM CEST >>lapack was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:03 PM CEST >>libxslt-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:44 PM CEST >>libxslt was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:21:55 PM CEST >>libxslt was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:04 PM CEST >>make was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:52 PM CEST >>postfix was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 08:22:06 PM CEST >>wireless-tools was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:00 PM CEST >>wireless-tools was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:26 PM CEST >>zlib-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:38 PM CEST >>zlib-devel was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:06:17 PM CEST >>zlib was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:04:43 PM CEST >>zlib was installed on Fri 22 Aug 2008 04:05:06 PM CEST >> > > Again, do rpm -qi on some of these and check the build date (on an upgraded > box)
You are right: basesystem: Build Date: Thu 05 Apr 2007 12:08:59 AM CEST make: Build Date: Thu 22 May 2008 12:39:33 AM CEST postfix: Build Date: Fri 15 Aug 2008 06:48:21 PM CEST zlib: Build Date: Fri 06 Apr 2007 09:33:04 PM CEST ... for i in basesystem postfix zlib ; do rpm -qa | grep $i ; done basesystem-8.0-5.1.1.noarch postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-3.x86_64 zlib-devel-1.2.3-3.i386 zlib-devel-1.2.3-3.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-3.i386 I don't want to be a pain, just understand. If above versions are ok, then I am fine (I have read Troy's recent email before sending this). >>> Might want to get a working external network connection first! >> >>http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://ftp.scientificlinux.org >>It's not just you! http://ftp.scientificlinux.org looks down from here. >> > Troy was changing the DNS entries sometime recently. Might not be updated for > you yet. > > Try linux9.fnal.gov / 131.225.110.147 I have added the IP to /etc/hosts which helps. thanks for your assistance, Markus
