On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:03:24AM -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> Scientific Linux 6.6 RC 2 i386/x86_64              Nov 6, 2013
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> If no major bugs are reported by Nov 12 this Release Candidate will
> be released as Scientific Linux 6.6.
> 

I am confused. How much of SL6.6 was just pushed as security/fastbugs updates to SL6.5? All of it?

K.O.




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> Network Install Images:
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> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.6/i386/images/boot.iso
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> Major Differences from SL6.5
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> OpenAFS
>     OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.10 from openafs.org
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> xorg-x11-server
>     Features a new ABI, this was a security errata so it should be
>     available to earlier releases.
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> POSSIBLE UPGRADE PROBLEMS
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> Users of proprietary drivers may experience issues with the X server
> loading due to changes between Xorg 1.13 and Xorg 1.15.
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> Users of the 32bit iscsi utilities on x86_64 systems may experience
> multilib complaints.  The 32bit iscsi utilities are not provided by
> upstream on x86_64 platforms.  We have removed them from 6.6 to follow
> their behavior.
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> Pat Riehecky
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