Hi Troy,

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Howdy,
> As Ioannis has already said RHEL 5 was released.
> 
> It was released on the birhtday of Albert Einstein, *and*, it was released at
> the time of pi.  3-14 1:59:26  (OK, so I can't verify the seconds, let's just
> pretend they got it)
> I think that is a very fitting release to begin to compile and turn into
> Scientific Linux.

Right.
 
> So the real work of building Scientific Linux 5 has begun.

Great.

> Step 1 is to recompile all of the source rpm's from RedHat, on a machine
> running the alpha release of S.L.5.
> Step 2 is to reinstall that machine with these new rpm's, and then recompile
> all the source rpm's from RedHat ... again.
> This ensures the batter is light and frothy.

Would anyone care to explain that to a european? Please reply off list, 
I'll post a summary...

> Wait, no, it makes sure that the binary rpm's have been compiled with the
> correct libraries.
> 
> After step 1 and step 2 are done, we will put all the binaries into a
> distribution and that will be our first beta release.  Then we will shake out
> the bugs, tweek, and fine tune things.
>
> What is the timeframe:
> This is just a educated guess.  This is just to answer the question before
> people ask it.  In the words of the upstream vendor, "we will release it when
> it's ready."
> First Beta - two weeks, so sometime around March 30
> Final Release - anywhere from 1 month to 2 months.  If everything works
> perfect, let's say April 16.  But I'd love to have it out no later than May
> 14.

So, when are you going to release it? ;-)
 
> The Whiteboard:
> The whiteboard is sortof a copy of the whiteboard in my office.  I will try to
> keep it updated so you can see what's going on.  It's web location is at
> 
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/rolling.whiteboard

Since it's on that whiteboard: I've put up my latest OpenAFS SRPM here:

   http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL5/openafs.SLx-1.4.3-0.rc3.41.src.rpm

Changes are really becoming incremental at this stage. I keep tracking the 
CVS, the mailing lists, and the bug tracker and put in the patches I think 
I fully understand and that clearly fix bugs. There's one such patch 
in rc3 that was not in our rc2 build, and one more in this package 
that was not in rc3. Both bugs seem to strike under rather special 
circumstances only, but they do exist. While what's in the current alpha 
is certainly at least of alpha quality, and hopefully much better, please 
use the above SRPM for SL5 beta - unless I come up with something even 
better before ;-)

I verified that it builds and works on EL5 as released yesterday, at least 
with the el5xen kernel running in dom0 on x86_64 - the remaining 
configurations still have to be tested asap, but I don't expect any 
problems.

Cheers,
	Stephan

PS Since the whiteboard has a questionmark behind gv: I got it to build
   on EL5. Want the SRPM?

-- 
Stephan Wiesand
  DESY - DV -
  Platanenallee 6
  15738 Zeuthen, Germany