Please test the following release.  There should only be minor changes 
before the release.  We plan on testing this for at least a week.

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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Scientific Linux "SL 5.0 Release Candidate 2.0" for i386 	April 20, 2007

Items marked with a "**" indicate changes compared to SL5rc1.5
See SL.documentation for the vendor release notes.

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ADDED compared to vendor
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**cfitsio
**
** 	CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and
** 	writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format
** 	CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.
**
**	cfitsio-3.030-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**	cfitsio-devel-3.030-1.sl5.i386.rpm

**JAVA
**
***
** 	This packages is the java sdk from sun.
** 	It's license is found at misc/licenses/j2sdk-1.4.2-x.license
**  	To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you 
should
** 	also install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
** 	So the easiest thing to do is
**            yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat
** 	as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.5.0 rpm.
**
**  java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.11-1jpp.noarch.rpm
**
**   	This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
**   	directories for Sun's JDK rpm.

**Perl-Modules
**These perl modules have been added as they are useful.
**
**  	perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-SQL-Statement-1.06-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-TermReadKey-2.20-12.i386.rpm
**  	perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.i386.rpm
**  	perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-TimeDate-2.22-1.noarch.rpm
**  	perl-Tk-804.027-1.i386.rpm

**SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-6.noarch.rpm
**
**  	This script makes all the changes necessary to send
**  	console output to both the serial port and the screen.  This
**  	also creates a login prompt on the serial port and allows users
**  	to login at this prompt.

**   	gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.i386.rpm		from Stephan Wiesand

**	redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.5.noarch.rpm

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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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** 	sl-release-5.0-4.i386.rpm
** 	sl-release-notes-5.0-4.noarch.rpm
**

**  	yum-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the latest
**  	stable release.  It is always pointing at the 5x area.  This means
**  	that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgraded to
**  	them.
**
** 		yum-conf-50-1.SL.noarch.rpm
**		yum-conf-5x-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm

**Apache
** 	Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to
** 	have SL info.
**	httpd-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm
**	httpd-devel-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm
**	httpd-manual-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm
**	mod_ssl-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm

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Fermilab  ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group
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