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Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> We have released the first Beta of Scientific Linux 6.
>
> The release is at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/
>
> DVD and Net Install downloads are at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/
>
>
> ***CHANGED SINCE ALPHA 5***
> *OpenAFS fixed*
> The selinux openafs problem has been fixed.
>
> *SL_password_for_singleuser fixed*
> The mechanism to enforce password authentication has changed, that's now
> configured in /etc/sysconfig/init. This update reflects that change.
>
> *Compiled packages against TUV packages*
> We have finished the check of our packages against TUV packages. We
> check files, permissions, scripts, requires, depends, and a few other
> checks. When there was a discrepancy we rebuilt our package using
> different parameters to match TUV packages.
> With this release we fixed the following packages.
> elinks
> jwhois
> perl-CGI-Session
> perl-IPC-Run3
> perl-Makefile-Parser
> perl-Sys-Virt
> perl-Test-Memory-Cycle
>
>
> ***KNOWN ISSUES***
> If you install openafs during the install, you do not get the firstboot
> screen that asks you which cell you want.
>
> If you are on a x86_64 machine, install the adobe repo, and install
> flash-plugin and/or AdobeReader_enu, you will get AdobeReader_<random
> language> in addition to what you asked for. You will also get many
> i686 packages installed for dependancies.
>
>
> ***CHANGES PLANNED FOR BETA 2***
>
> We are planning on SL6 BETA 2 to be released Friday January
> 22, 2011
January 28, 2011
(We're not good enough to have it ready by tomorrow)
>
> Expected Updates for Beta 2
> - yum-autoupdate and possibly yum-cron. Both of these with
> automatically update your system nightly. The goal is for both of these
> packages to be independent and not conflict with each other.
> - get openafs firstboot to run correctly. This is going to involve a
> rewrite, so will take longer than we expected.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped thus far.
> The Scientific Linux Development Team
>
Troy
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Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group
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