Alas, for SL 5 $releasever isn't used by the yum repos we provide.
I'll add the comment on releasever to the docs for 6 and 7 as it is a handy command set.
Pat On 02/05/2015 02:26 AM, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote:
Thanks to all who responded. There was indeed a typo in de scientific.org documentation. Therefor I have succeeded in upgrading to 5.11. Also David mentioned: 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 < (@Pat) I remember this was also in the documentation on the old scientific.org website... maybe add this to the new site? Regards, Carel van der Werf -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pat Riehecky Sent: 04 February, 2015 18:02 To: Doug Johnson; [email protected] Subject: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Upgrade from SL 5.3 Documentation updated, thanks for finding this! Pat On 02/04/2015 10:59 AM, Doug Johnson wrote:Greetings, Perhaps it is a typo in the documentation? {root}> yum search yum-conf Loaded plugins: kernel-module, priorities 463 packages excluded due to repository priority protections ================================================================ Matched: yum-conf ================================================================ yum-conf.noarch : RPM installer/updater config files yum-conf-5x.noarch : RPM installer/updater config files yum-conf-adobe.i686 : linux.adobe.com Repository Configuration yum-conf-adobe.x86_64 : linux.adobe.com Repository Configuration yum-conf-elrepo.noarch : ElRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository release file yum-conf-epel.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration But I don't use this method, so take this with a grain of salt. Hope this helps, dougHi, 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) ar= e not supported. Starting with Scientific Linux 5.9 and Scientific Linux 6.4, the 'x' repo i= s installed by default. So: # yum install yum-conf-sl5x=20 Shows: "No package yum-conf-sl5x available" (from ftp1.scientificlinux.org)=20 Therefor: Is the phrase " or any older SL 5 release " correct ? Regards, Carel=20--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Johnson email: [email protected] B390, Duane Physics (303)-492-4506 Office Boulder, CO 80309 (303)-492-5119 FAX http://www.aaccchildren.org http://www-hep.colorado.edu/support/fulbright Father, father, father. We don't need to escalate War is not the answer, 'cause only love can conquer hate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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