Hi Stephen, thanks for the link. That did it for me. About looping through the alphabet, I was ready to write a bash script. Luckily, my yum.repo didn't give me issue.
-Tam On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) < [email protected]> wrote: > On 04/04/2012 06:53 AM, zxq9 wrote: > >> On 04/04/2012 03:31 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> >>> yum --releasever=6.2 update did the trick. >>> >>> 2012/4/4 Eero Volotinen<eero.volotinen@iki.**fi <[email protected]> >>> >: >>> >>>> tried normal "redhat way update", without any success: >>>> >>>> yum upgrade >>>> Setting up Upgrade Process >>>> No Packages marked for Update >>>> >>> >>> sorry for noise to the list.. >>> >> >> Hi Eero, >> >> I believe that using --releasever=N doesn't make a permanenent change. >> You will need to set your release version to 6.2, 6x or 6rolling if you >> want to be pulling from the 6.2 repos the next time you run yum -- >> otherwise you'll be puzzled why you're not getting updates. >> >> I'm unsure if there is a more elegant solution, but I think the only >> place to make that change permanent is by doing something like: >> >> sed --in-place=.bak -e "s/6.1/6x/" /etc/redhat-release >> >> Or do the equivalent by hand. But that might be a crude hack -- Someone >> else here please pipe up if there is a better way. >> >> Or there is always: >> >> alias yum="yum --releasever=6x" >> >> Cheers >> -z >> >> I use the instructions in the URL below and tweaked the process a bit > for some local issues I have. I found that on some systems the rather long > list of packages it wants to update can cause yum to get a bit confused. > So I loop through the alphabet one letter at a time running "yum -y > --releasever=6.2 update a\*", then b\*, c\* etc. That keeps yum happy. > After that the only packages left are a few with capital letters or > numerals at the beginning of the package name. Also had an issue with > autofs, so I grab a copy of the new autofs rpm and update it locally before > beginning the process. > > https://www.scientificlinux.**org/documentation/howto/**upgrade.6x<https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.6x> > > -- > Stephen Berg > Systems Administrator > NRL Code: 7320 > Office: 228-688-5738 > [email protected].**mil <[email protected]> >
