Scientific Linux "SL 5.0 Beta 1" on x86_64 April 13, 2007
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See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes.
Items marked with a "*" indicate changes compared to RHELv5.
Items marked with a "**" indicate changes compared to SL5a
Items marked with a "?" indicate changes that were in 4.x and need
checking for 5.x .
Table of contents
DOWNLOAD INFO
ADDED compared to Enterprise 5
UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5
Installer/legal modifications
/contrib
SRPMS
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
LIMITATIONS
INFO
ERRATA
RPMS that have not built yet
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64/
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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) i
? data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.
?
? cfitsio-3.006-3.x86_64.rpm
? cfitsio-devel-3.006-3.x86_64.rpm
?
**dropit
** dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from a
** PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields.
** dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files.
**
** dropit-1.2-1.x86_64.rpm
**Graphviz
**
** Graph Visualization Tools
**
** graphviz-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-devel-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-doc-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-graphs-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-guile-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-java-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-lua-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-ocaml-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-perl-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-php-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-python-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-ruby-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
** graphviz-tcl-2.8-1.sl.x86_64.rpm
**
**FUSE
**
** With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
** in a userspace program.
** fuse-smb: you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as if
** it were on your own filesystem. Only when you're accessing a share is
** a connection made to the remote computer. This also allows users to
** mount smb shares using kerberos.
** fuse-sshfs: A FUSE-filesystem client based on the
** SSH File Transfer Protocol. On the client side mounting the
** filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.
**
** fuse-2.6.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
** fuse-devel-2.6.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
** fuse-libs-2.6.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
** fuse-smb-0.8.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
** fuse-sshfs-1.7-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-1.2747.el5-2.6.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen-2.6.3-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
**icewm
**
** A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
**
** icewm-1.2.30-2.x86_64.rpm
** icewm-l10n-1.2.30-2.x86_64.rpm
**Intel wireless firmware
**
** Firmware for the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 and 2200 Driver.
** Please read the license that comes in the rpm carefully.
** ipw2200-firmware-3.0 includes version 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and 3.0
**
** ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.noarch.rpm
** ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.noarch.rpm
**
** ipw3945d is needed to control the ipw3945 wireless card
** kernel-module-ipw3945 is needed because this driver is not in
** the standard kernel. Note that the installer does NOT know
** how to enable the 3945 wireless. You will have to add the
** starting of the /sbin/ipw3945d in your startup scripts.
** This driver is known to work on the Dell 820 and Dell 620.
** It is known to NOT work on the FJS S7110 (Fujitsu).
**
** ipw3945-1.2.0-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** ipw3945d-1.7.22-7.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** ipw3945-firmware-1.13-1.noarch.rpm
** kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-1.2.0-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-1.2.0-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
?JAVA
?
?j2sdk-1.4.2_12-fcs.i586.rpm
?
? Updated version
? 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-1.4.2-sun-compat
? as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.4.2 rpm.
? There is no gpg signature on this rpm.
? It also does not load if one is put on.
? java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.12-1jpp.i586.rpm
?
? Updated version
? This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
? directories for Sun's JDK rpm.
**madwifi
**
** Support for Atheros G wireless
** madfifi is the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi, a linux device driver
** for 802.11a/b/g universal NIC cards - either Cardbus, PCI or MiniPCI -
** that use Atheros chipsets (ar5210, ar5211, ar5212).
**
** madwifi-0.9.2.1-9.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-0.9.2.1-9.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-0.9.2.1-9.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-0.9.2.1-9.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-0.9.2.1-9.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**Multimedia
**
** gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-1.SL4x.x86_64.rpm from SL4 (updated
tarball)
** k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from livna Repository
**
**These are dependencies of the above rpms.
**
** lame-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** lame-devel-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** taglib-1.4-1.2.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
** taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
**ndiswrapper
**
** The ndiswrapper project makes it possible to use WLAN-Hardware
** with Linux by means of a loadable kernel module that "wraps
** around" NDIS (Windows network driver API) drivers. These rpms contain
** just the kernel module and loader. You will also need the Windows
driver
** for your card.
**
** The installer does NOT install ndiswrapper, you have to install it by
** either selecting it on the Packages Install page during the install or
** adding later via yum or apt.
**
** kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
** ndiswrapper-1.41-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
*nedit
* NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System and Motif.
*
* nedit-5.5-10.x86_64.rpm
?NumPy
?
? http://numpy.scipy.org//
? NumPy derives from the old Numeric code base and can be used as a
? replacement for Numeric. It also adds the features introduced by
? Numarray and can also be used to replace Numarray.
?
? This package contains:
? - a powerful N-dimensional array object
? - sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
? - basic linear algebra functions
? - basic Fourier transforms
? - sophisticated random number capabilities
? - tools for integrating Fortran code.
?
? numpy-0.9.8-1.x86_64.rpm
**OpenAFS
**
** We have put in the latest 1.4.4 release of openafs
**
** openafs-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-authlibs-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-client-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-compat-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-debug-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-devel-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL.noarch.rpm
** openafs-kernel-source-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-kpasswd-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-krb5-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** openafs-server-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
** kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5xen-1.4.4-42.SL5.x86_64.rpm
?These perl modules have been added as they are useful. They came from CERN
?
? perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm
? perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm
? perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.39-1.x86_64.rpm
? perl-SQL-Statement-1.06-1.noarch.rpm
? perl-TermReadKey-2.20-12.x86_64.rpm
? perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.x86_64.rpm
? perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm
? perl-TimeDate-2.22-1.noarch.rpm
? perl-Tk-804.027-1.x86_64.rpm
?
**R
**
** http://www.r-project.org/
** R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
** It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment
** which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers and
colleagues.
** R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some
** important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered
under R.
**
** R-2.4.1-1.sl5x.x86_64.rpm
** R-devel-2.4.1-1.sl5x.x86_64.rpm
** libRmath-2.4.1-1.sl5x.x86_64.rpm
** libRmath-devel-2.4.1-1.sl5x.x86_64.rpm
?r1000
?
? This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek Ethernet
controllers,
? which are listed as following.
? 1. RTL8169S/SB/SC (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI interface)
? 2. RTL8168B (Gigabit Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
? 3. RTL8101E (Fast Ethernet with PCI-Express interface)
?
? The installer does not automatically install these.
?
? r1000-2.2-1.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
? kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
? kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELlargesmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
? kernel-module-r1000-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp-2.2-2.SL4x.x86_64.rpm
**SL_afs_no_dynroot-2.0-2.noarch.rpm
**
** This package removes the -dynroot option from the openafs config
** Restarting of afs is needed for this to take effect.
** This rpm does not restart afs
**SL_desktop_tweaks-5-2.noarch.rpm
**
** This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for both KDE and GNOME.
** This also enables 'Last Session' in gdm login screen.
** Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME.
?SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-4.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.
?
? Updated to include a missing dependency.
?SL_libg2c.a_change-3.4.3-1.noarch.rpm
?
? Creates a missing symbolic link in the gcc-g77 package from
? /usr/lib/libg2c.a to it's proper place
**SL_no_colorls-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
**
** Turns off "color" of ls. Not installed by default.
**SL_password_for_singleuser-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
**
** Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for
** single user mode. Not installed by default.
** This used to be SL_inittab_change
**SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
**
** Adds arch to "rpm -qa" listing.
**SL_sendmail_accept-1.1-3.noarch.rpm
**
** Changes Sendmail config so that it allows incomming mail.
** Not installed by default.
?tidy
? When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if
? there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up
? sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is!
? Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that.
? It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated
? by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you
? identify where you need to pay further attention on making your
pages
? more accessible people with disabilities.
?
? tidy-2005.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm
** Yumex
**
** Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum.
**
** yumex-1.9.5-1.0.el5.noarch.rpm
**
**yum-utilx
**
** yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum
** package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that
** make yum easier and more powerful to use. Some utilities are
** plugin's.
**
** yum-utils-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-allowdowngrade-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-changelog-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-fastestmirror-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-fedorakmod-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-metadata-parser-1.0.3-1.el5.i386.rpm
** yum-priorities-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-protectbase-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-skip-broken-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-tsflags-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-updateonboot-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-versionlock-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
?MISC
? Added these rpms because they are important but RedHat removed them.
?
? gv-3.5.8-29.x86_64.rpm from Fedora Core 3
? ncurses4-5.0-12.x86_64.rpm from Scientific Linux 3.0.x
** pine-4.64-3.sl.i386.rpm from Dag's Repository
? readline41-4.1-17.x86_64.rpm from Scientific Linux 3.0.x
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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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?Installer(anaconda)
?
? Added support for sites.
? Added support for openafs on smp
?
? anaconda-10.1.1.46-3SL.x86_64.rpm
? anaconda-runtime-10.1.1.46-3SL.x86_64.rpm
There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release. We have changed
the "rpms" that are required to be changed. These changes are defined
by the
"vendor".
** redhat-artwork-5.0.9-1.SL.2.x86_64.rpm
** redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.3.noarch.rpm
** sl-release-5.0-3.x86_64.rpm
** sl-release-notes-5.0-3.noarch.rpm
** sl-release changes the default mozilla and firefox bookmarks.
** sl-release changes the default rhn configuration to use yum and
** points this configuration to ftp.scientificlinux.org
** sl-release removed the firstboot additional cd's question
** redhat-logos was changed to add the "photographs" shown during
** the install
? Changes grub to put in the new release name for the default kernel
?
**These rpm's are not required to be changed by the vendor, but we felt
**they needed to be changed
**
** gdm-2.16.0-30.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue
** pirut-1.2.10-1.sl.noarch.rpm
** Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"
** rhgb-0.16.4-5.sl.1.x86_64.rpm
** Changed the colors.
**yum
**
** Yum version 2.4 and above has the kernel-module plugin that let's yum
** understand how kernel-module rpm's are related to kernels. Because of
** this updates dealing with kernel-module rpm's (such as afs) now work
**
** yum-conf
** metadata_expire variable was set to 20 hours to allow for normal users
** to be able to use yum for those commands they can run
** yum-conf has the following repositories in it
** sl-base (enabled)
** sl-security (enabled)
** sl-testing (not enabled)
** sl-fastbugs (not enabled)
** sl-bugfix-51 (not enabled)
** atrpms (not enabled)
** dag (not enabled)
** flash (not enabled)
** Not all repositories are enabled by default.
** To enable them for one time use, use the --enablerepo command, such as
** yum --enablerepo=atrpms list mplayer
** yum --enablerepo=dag install xine
** yum --enablerepo=flash install flash-player
**
** If you want the repositories to be enabled all the time then you need
** to edit the config files and change enabled=0 to enabled=1.
** The config files are in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and are
** named like
** /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
** /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo
**
** NOTE1: Just because a yum repository exists does NOT mean
** it is compatible with all other yum repositories. We have included
** the repositories we did because they usually work well together. But if
** there is a problem with one of the packages in a repository, please
contact
** that repository maintainer.
**
** yum-autoupdate
** yum-autoupdate has the check for a running yum in it, so that if
** yum has been running for a long time (close to 24 hours), when the
yum.cron
** starts up, it will kill the old yum. This was changed because we
** had reports that yum was hanging and we didn't want this to
interfere with updates.
**
** yum-autoupdate checks to see how long the machine is been up
** If it is up less than 20 hours, it doesn't wait, but does the update.
** If it is longer than 20 hours, it waits a random time, up to 3 hours.
** This uptime check was done to help laptops and other machines that
** might not be on long enough to wait for the random time.
** The random time was put it in so that servers arn't overwhelmed.
**
** 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-3.0.6-2.sl.noarch.rpm
** yum-autoupdate-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
** yum-conf-50-0.5.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm
** yum-rhn-plugin-0.4.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm
** yum-metadata-parser-1.0.4-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
** yum-updatesd-3.0.6-2.sl.noarch.rpm
?apache(httpd)
? Removed reference to Upstream Vendor in default index.html
? httpd-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64.rpm
? httpd-devel-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64.rpm
? httpd-manual-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64.rpm
? httpd-suexec-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64.rpm
? mod_ssl-2.0.52-28.sl4.x86_64.rpm
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**/SL/
**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
RHELv5 consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client. Each cd set has a group
of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the Client cd this
consists
of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT,
Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the same rpms on
each cd.
The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any
common
rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms along with
many unique rpms.
** We have combined all of the rpm's from Client, Server, VT, Cluster,
** ClusterStorage, and Workstation into the SL directory.
** You are not asked to enter any key, since you have access to all
packages.
**
**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
** /contrib/
**------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**RPMS provided by colaboraters that either cannot go in main release or are
**intesting before going into main release.
**
**See the SRPMS section for source rpms
**
**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
**/updates/
**-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
** security
** Security errata
** fastbugs
** Packages rebuilt from the Upstream Vendor Fastrack rpms
** These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update
** They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor
** bugfix51
** Reserved for packages from the next Update.
**
**---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**/../SRPMS/
**---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**
**/SL/
** Contains the SRPMS for what we added or changed. Put these in the
** top level directory as these are really the ones we changed. All
** the others can be obtained from the upstream vendor ftp updates area
**/vendor/
** The upstream vendors SRPMS.
** This directory contains both the original released SRPMS, as well as
** the updated SRPMS
**/contrib/
** SRPMS for the contrib packages
**/sites/<site>/SRPMS
** SRPMS for sites, if there is a site
**
**---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**/../archive/
**---------------------------------------------------------------------------
**/obsolete/x86_64/
** Packages that used to be in the release but have been
** updated
**/debuginfo/x86_64/
** Debuginfo packages
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LIMITATIONS
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**ipw3945
** Does not work in the installer
**ftp install
** Currently, during an ftp install when it get's the the graphical
** section, there is a long pause (close to a minute) when it sits
** at a blank screen. It is NOT frozen, it is just searching for
** files that are not there. Give it a couple minutes and it
** will continue. This will be fixed before the final release.
?3ware 8xxx and 9xxx in same system
?
? Grub can get confused about which "drives" are which if both
? of these cards are installed. You can either run grub manually
? before rebooting or use "noprobe" during the install and install
? only the 3ware driver for the card that you will be booting off of.
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