[ydl-gen] Cannot "yum upgrade" from ydl-6 to ydl-6.1

[John Frankish]

Thanks for the reply.

It turns out I needed the correct /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-{base, 
updates, extras}.repo addresses for ydl-6.1. After renaming the 
existing ydl-6.0 repos and replacing them with the ydl-6.1 repos "yum 
upgrade" worked fine and I'm now running ydl-6.1.

If I recall correctly, the upgrade from ydl-6.0 to ydl-6.1 was 40 new 
packages and 296 updated packages for a total of 518MB - so better 
than downloading a new 4GB iso.

John
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At 00:14 11-01-09, you wrote:
>Hi John:
>
>There are two components to your question:
>
>1.  The rules governing linux software version numbering, which could
>be researched elsewhere.  It is beyond the scope of this method of
>communication, ie. via this kind of mailing list.
>
>2.  Very briefly, YDL 6.1 is not an upgrade from YDL 6.0 but a
>completely unique and separate release and progression beyond YDL 6.0.
>Therefore there is no way to upgrade between the two releases via yum.
>
>On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:13:11 +0400
>John Frankish <frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to use "yum upgrade" to upgrade from ydl-6.0 to
> > ydl-6.1 without success - basically I get the message that there are
> > no packages to upgrade.
> >
> > Do I need to modify /etc/yum.repos.d/yellowdog-base or is there
> > another trick to this
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
> > _______________________________________________