Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:03:52AM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> I want to use SL5 soon after it comes out (and stick with it a long
>> time), and am wondering whether the upgrade path will be easier from
>> SL4.2, or from FC6.
>>
> ...
> 
> Two errata:
> 
> 1) Make that SL4.4 instead of SL4.2 .  The question stands but:
> 
> 2) There is reference on the website to an rsync'able 5.0 alpha.  
> Though it is not production ready, that might be the best substrate
> to build my apps on, as I expect the libraries and includes to 
> approximate the release.  However, 
> 
>    THERE IS NO PATH GIVEN
> 
> ... to rsync the alpha from.  Rather than guess, perhaps someone can
> give me a pointer to where the files are on rsync.scientificlinux.org.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> P.S.  Note for those of you following along, the "Mirror by rsync"
> page on site has a very long comand line:
> 
> rsync -avzlH --delete --exc ... /export/pub/linux/scientific/301/
> 
> This will be formatted as two lines if you use middle text size and
> your screen is less than 1600 pixels across;  this might be reformatted
> in the Plone source as multiple lines with line breaks "\" to avoid
> needless confusion.
> 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling
  and the corresponding rsync area.
rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/5rolling/

The full announcement is at

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0612&L=scientific-linux-announce&T=0&X=1C14594438A91BCCA7&Y=dawson%40fnal.gov&P=231

Troy
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