Topic: Yum software update 7rc2 ???

[d6hq]

Quoting gordonr in his 7rc2 notification

"Note: This release will also be made available for yum updates, but beware - the update is large due to the change to the CentOS 4.3 base."

Is this the reason that 7rc1 reports that software updates are available but on clicking "Install Available Updates" there is nothing available to install as yet? Just how large is large?

[llandry]

Suffering from the same affliction.... Any ideas on this one?

Thanks in advance.

[CharlieBrady]

Quoting gordonr in his 7rc2 notification

"Note: This release will also be made available for yum updates, but beware - the update is large due to the change to the CentOS 4.3 base."

Is this the reason that 7rc1 reports that software updates are available but on clicking "Install Available Updates" there is nothing available to install as yet?

Please report all problems via the bug tracker - and only report them there please. Check for existing reports of your problem there first.

Just how large is large?

Something in the order of 170MB.

[Mjohnson]

The problem is reported in the Bug Tracker:  Bug 1261

Based on this, I upgraded via the ISO download route.  It went very smoothly, no problems at all.

[smitti]

I did yesterday a yum upgrade and it needed to download about 110 MB and it went super.

I also downloaded the iso but just tried a upgrade and I have now 2 boxes upgraded to SME7rc2.

(thanx to everyone who is putting all the time and affort into this server)

Peter Smit

[d6hq]

Charlie

Ok its a bug and I should have looked there first. However its a fairly significant one I would say given that a misguided manual attempt to sort it could result in a complete system crash? Surely it deserves a notification in the main forum in its own right.

[jonvee]

I too did a manual update using the command line. Worked great. Took about 30 minutes

JV

[gordonr]

Charlie

Ok its a bug and I should have looked there first. However its a fairly significant one I would say given that a misguided manual attempt to sort it could result in a complete system crash? Surely it deserves a notification in the main forum in its own right.

No. The whole point of having the bug tracker is so that there is one place to look for issues and one place to report them. Please help the development team by using the bug tracker.

[llandry]

Thanks to all...

Did a manual yum update ...

Flawless!!!

L2

[addodge]

can someone post the commands to do a manual yum update?
Thanks
Andy

[Mjohnson]

yum upgrade
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot


Check the Announce at the top of the forum for aditional commands if you are updating from 7pre1

[munter]

this works fine...happy as a clown now