Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> 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?
> 

Oh, the question mark behind gv, ncurses4 and readline41 was whether we 
need them in the distribution or not.  I was told in SL4 that several 
experiments needed them, and I was just wondering if that was still the 
case.  Basically just wanted to ask if anybody is still using these 
packages.
Since you already had gv recompiled for SL5 alpha, I am supposing that 
you use it, so we should keep it in.
Is youre src rpm for gv newer than the one in SL4?  (gv-3.5.8-29.src.rpm)

Troy
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