Francois Colonna wrote: > I am not part of CERN staff. > It is not clear for me what are the differences between these two files: > > kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.cern.src.rpm > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.cern.src.rpm> > 12-Mar-2006 14:38 43M kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm> > 10-Mar-2006 09:48 42M Please look at output of: rpm -qip http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.cern.src.rpm --changelog | less to see set of patches added at CERN to the standard RHEL/SL kernel. "( of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. * Sat Mar 11 2006 Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]> - added bigphysarea - added SGI kdb v4.4 - added ARECA arcmsr driver - added CERN SCSI tape patches - enabled XFS - added XFS ioctl patch * Fri Feb 24 2006 Jason Baron <[log in to unmask]> [2.6.9-34] )" > At http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/ there are 4 possibilities. Four possibilities of what ? > What is SLC 30X ? I only heard about SLC 4X. Previous version of Scientific Linux CERN: http://cern.ch/linux/scientific3/ > > I suppose I am concerned with "not CERN" SLC 4X > then I find the line if it is SLC it is CERN version: that is what C there means .. > > for i386: os > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/i386/yum/os/repodata/> updates > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/i386/yum/updates/repodata/> extras > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/i386/yum/extras/repodata/> testing > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/i386/yum/testing/repodata/> dag > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/> jpackage > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/jpackage/1.6/redhat-el-4.0/> rhaps2 > <http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/RHAPS2/i386/yum/rhaps2/repodata/> > and again the content is far from clear, why not to have an hyperlink to > some wiki entry ? On that web page you have a link to documentation site too: http://cern.ch/linux/ where you will find the description of software repositories at: http://cern.ch/linux/updates/ Cheers Jarek __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _
