listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0508&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&P=10823 > https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade > > > > But the steps will be similar to what they are for > > SL3.0.x. But the > > first step will be a different link. you will do > > > > rpm -Uvh > > > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/misc/RPMS/yum-conf-4x.SL.noarch.rpm > > > > yum update yum > > yum update
> > If you just do a 'yum update' without updating your > > yum-conf, then you > > will still be at S.L. 4.0. That is one of the ways > > that we are > > different that CentOS. We have several experiments > > and sites that want > > to sit at a certain release and only get the > > security updates. They > > don't want to automatically be upgraded to the > > latest release. So we > > make the updating to a different release a manual > > process. > > > > We are working on a way so that people who do want > > to just automatically > > be moved up to the latest release, can have this > > functionality. But > > that will be a couple weeks away.
