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

[John Frankish]

Hi,

There's a newer notice here

quote from <http://us.fixstars.com/resources/>http://us.fixstars.com/resources/

Upgrading to the next version of Yellow Dog Linux
While updating your installed applications from YDL v6.x to v6.y (for 
example) is condudted [sic] via the "yum upgrade" command, when 
upgrading from one version of Yellow Dog Linux to the next, for 
instance, from YDL v5.0.1 to YDL v6.0, it is likely you will need to 
reinstall the entire OS. Before you do this, it is prudent to backup 
your /home/[username]/ directory to an external storage device.

John
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At 17:39 11-01-09, you wrote:
>Hi John:
>
>I'm pleased to discover of your success and that your approach appears
>to be working for you.  I recall coming across a dated, but
>still useful, explanation discussing upgrading across versions.
>Unfortunately I had not recalled exactly where the reference was
>located.
>
>It does correct my previous submission on this topic however at the risk
>of reading too much into a phrase, I would like to highlight and
>express my modified concern.
>
>The link is here: http://us.fixstars.com/products/faq/upgrade.shtml
>
>The phrase, embedded in the first sentence reflecting my caution begins
>with "usually".  Hopefully, recalling this could be helpful in the
>future should you need to track down a recurring anomaly.
>
>On Sun, 11 Jan 2009
>08:23:13 +0400 John Frankish <frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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