Scientific Linux "SL 5.2" ALPHA 2 for i386  is out now.
Changes and updates since alpha 1

** Anaconda has the sites changes in it

alpine
** 	alpine-1.10-1.i386.rpm

madwifi
**	kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.el5PAE-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.el5xen-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.el5PAE-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm
**	kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.el5xen-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686.rpm

**R
**	Latest version
**	R-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**	R-devel-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**	libRmath-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**	libRmath-devel-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm


**XFS
**		xfs-0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
**		xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**		xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**		xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**		dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**		dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5.i386.rpm
**		kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.el5-0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
**		kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.el5PAE-0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
**		kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.el5xen-0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm

**  	pirut-1.3.28-13.sl.noarch.rpm
** 		Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"

**		yum-conf-52-0.1.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm
**		yum-updatesd-0.9-2.sl.noarch.rpm

We will call it a beta when we have changed the comps.xml to reflect the new 
packages.

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> yum-updatesd fixed.
> It has a much different number because it was originally part of the yum rpm,
> but it got pulled out to be it's own separate rpm.
> 
> pirut is also fixes so it isn't pulling in the rhn stuff.
> 
> Those should come out in the second alpha ... hopefully out today.
> 
> Troy
>>> -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
>>>>>
>> --
>> Stephan Wiesand
>>    DESY - DV -
>>    Platanenallee 6
>>    15738 Zeuthen, Germany
> 
> 
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