On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Connie Sieh wrote:

> The x86_64 alpha is now available.

Thanks.

> Please test.

Will do. I tested i386 (update from 5.1 and fresh PXE install). No 
problems seen. Except the one with yum-updatesd I already mentioned:
it requires the old yum. The x86_64 one seems to have a very different 
version number?

- Stephan

> -Connie Sieh
>
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Connie Sieh wrote:
>
>> Troy of course meant SL and not SLF.
>> 
>> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> Just to answer the question before it is asked.
>>> I was really going to try to get our alpha release out today.  We've got 
>>> almost all of the packages recompiled.  I was just going to shove them all 
>>> in, just do some minimal changes, test an install or two, and push it out.
>>> But then, one of those minimal changes is sl-release ... and I noticed 
>>> that we still had sources pointing to 5rolling for SL 5.1.  So ... as you 
>>> might have noticed, I pushed out that errata today, so that it could 
>>> propagate out.
>>> 
>>> So ... expect an alpha release early next week ... probably Tuesday the 
>>> 27th.
>> 
>> The i386 version is now available for testing at
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386/
>> 
>> -Connie Sieh
>>> 
>>> Troy
>>> 
>> 
>

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