On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, William Lutter wrote:
basic question...
It's not clear to me from the FAQ
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x
Can I skip from SL5.0 to 5.6 or do I need to go through the intermediate minor
updates 5.0->5.1->5.2...?
For instance if I jump from 5.0 to 5.6, could I just do "For the more cautious"
step 6:
rpm -Uvh
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-latest.SL.noarch.rpm
Bill Lutter
That should work.. the worst that can happen is that you find
a few rpms that don't yum upgrade clean due to an epoch set
wrong here or there, or a few custom non-SL packages that
have crept into your distro. If so, rpm -e --nodeps
and try again until it works.
Steve
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