Scientific Linux 5.2 i386 is now officially released and available.
We want to thank everyone for their contributions, testing and feedback. With
all your effort we have been able to get this release out in a timely manner.
There are CD and DVD iso images available at
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/iso/i386/
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/iso/i386/
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
--SL 5.2 release notes --
Scientific Linux "SL 5.2" for i386 June 26, 2008
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Table of contents
DOWNLOAD INFO
ADDED compared to Enterprise 5.2
UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5.2
Installer/legal modifications
ADDED by Upstream Vendor
/contrib
SRPMS
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
LIMITATIONS
INFO
ERRATA
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/iso/i386
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915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5.i386.rpm
915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900
series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and
865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This
modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics
resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.
915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is
no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that
915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for
it's changes to take effect.
915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the i
code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler.i
915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel.
alpine
Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.
Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing &
Communications at the University of Washington.
* alpine-1.10-1.i386.rpm
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
*dkms
*
* This package contains the framework for the Dynamic
* Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing
* module RPMS as originally developed by Dell.
*
* dkms-2.0.17.4-1.9.noarch.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.i386.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.
* Updated to latest fuse-smb and fuse-sshfs
fuse-2.6.3-1.SL.i386.rpm
fuse-devel-2.6.3-1.SL.i386.rpm
fuse-libs-2.6.3-1.SL.i386.rpm
* fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL.i386.rpm
* fuse-sshfs-2.0-1.SL.i386.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm
*Graphviz
Graph Visualization Tools
* Updated to latest release
*
* graphviz-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-devel-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-doc-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-graphs-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-guile-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-java-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-lua-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-ocaml-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-perl-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-php-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-python-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-ruby-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-tcl-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
*icewm
A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
* Updated to the latest version
* icewm-1.2.35-1.i386.rpm
* icewm-l10n-1.2.35-1.i386.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
* ipw3945d is now turned on by default. The startup script
* looks for the ipw3945 hardware, and if it finds it
* it starts up the ipw3945 deamon.
kernel-module-ipw3945 is needed because this driver is not in
the standard kernel.
This driver is known to work on the Dell 820 and Dell 620.
It is known to NOT work on the FJS S7110 (Fujitsu).
ipw3945-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
* ipw3945d-1.7.22-11.sl5.i386.rpm
ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.sl5.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
The file iwlwifi-4965.ucode is required to be
present on your system in order for the Intel Wireless WiFi Link
4965AGN driver for Linux (iwlwifi) to be able to operate on your
system.
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17-5.sl5.noarch.rpm
*JAVA
* java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.15-1jpp.noarch.rpm
* jdk-1.5.0_15-fcs.i586.rpm
This packages is the java sdk from sun.
It's license is found at SL.documentation/jdk-1.5.x.license
To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you should
also install java-1.5.0-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-1.5.0.15-1jpp.noarch.rpm
This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
directories for Sun's JDK rpm.
*kdeedu
*
* Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE
* kstars is part of this package
*
* kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5.i386.rpm
* kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5.i386.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-0.9.4-15.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
Multimedia
gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl.i386.rpm from SL4 (updated tarball)
k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl.i386.rpm from livna Repository
These are dependencies of the above rpms.
lame-3.97-1.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
lame-devel-3.97-1.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
taglib-1.4-1.2.sl.i386.rpm from RPMforge
taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl.i386.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.
WARNING: Scientific Linux-Kernels use 4K size stack. Many Windows drivers
will need at least 8K size stacks. For details read the wiki on:
http:/ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
* Updated to the latest version
* ndiswrapper-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
nedit
NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System and Motif.
nedit-5.5-10.el5.i386.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-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
*OpenAFS
* We have put in the latest 1.4.7 release of openafs
* openafs-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-authlibs-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-client-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-compat-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-debug-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-devel-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-kernel-source-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-kpasswd-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-krb5-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* openafs-server-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* gfs-utils-0.1.12-1.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.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-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-Tk-804.027-1.i386.rpm
perl-TimeDate has been added to the release by The Upstream Vendor
We decided to use TUV's version of perl-TimeDate
*R
http://www.r-project.org/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
R 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.
* 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
*r1000
*
* The r1000 driver is now the r8169 driver, now in the SL 5.2 kernel.
* Because it is now in the kernel, we have removed the r1000 packages.
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-5-4.noarch.rpm
This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for both KDE and GNOME.
This also changed the KDE startup background from red to black
Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME.
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.
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.
* Now umask friendly
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 to people with disabilities.
tidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.i386.rpm
libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.i386.rpm
libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.i386.rpm
*XFS
* XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance journaling filesystem
* that provides rapid recovery from system crashes.
*
* 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-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.4-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.4-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.4-1.sl5.i686.rpm
*Yumex
Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum.
* Updated to the latest stable version
* yumex-2.0.3-1.0.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-utils
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.
* These plugin's have been updated to version 1.1.10, corresponding
* to the yum-utils version provided by TUV
* yum-installonlyn has been incorporated into yum
* See comments in yum.conf on how to change settings for installonlyn
* yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-merge-conf-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-priorities-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-tsflags-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
* The following have been replaced by a new version which is included
* by TUV
* yum-metadata-parser-1.0.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
* yum-utils-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-changelog-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-fedorakmod-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-installonlyn-1.0.4-2.sl5.noarch.rpm
* yum-protectbase-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-skip-broken-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 upstream vendor did
not include them.
gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.i386.rpm from Stephan Wiesand
* Pine has been replaced by alpine
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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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Installer(anaconda)
* anaconda-11.1.2.113-3.SL.i386.rpm
* anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.113-3.SL.i386.rpm
*
* Added kernel-module.py yum plugin during the install
Modified pkgorder with patches from CentOS
Modified installclasses/rhel.py to remove key request
Modified installclasses/rhel.py to include SL groups
sites support
see sites/example
Note: Installing sites on a virtual machine
When installing a paravirtulized site, you have to point at the
site directory, such as 5rolling/i386/sites/example
When installing a fully virtulized site, you only have to point
to the base directory, like you usually would, such as
5rolling/x86_64/sites/example
*comps.xml
*
* Updated some group names and descriptions to work better internationally
*
* In Update 1 The Upstream Vendor changed their comps.xml files to
* reflect a different sorting structure, as well as clean up extra
* files from their short term linux release.
*
* In Update 2 The Upstream Vendor added more packages to their comps.xml
* comps-sl.xml has been changed to incorporate most of
* TUV changes. Since we have merged their various comps.xml files,
* our comps.xml will never really look like theirs. But this
* change brings ours more in line with their Update 2 versions.
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.i386.rpm
redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.6.noarch.rpm
* sl-release-5.2-1.i386.rpm
* sl-release-notes-5.2-1.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
These rpm's are not required to be changed by the vendor, but we felt
they needed to be changed
* gdm-2.16.0-46.sl5.i386.rpm
Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue
* pirut-1.3.28-13.sl.noarch.rpm
* Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"
rhgb-0.16.4-8.sl.1.i386.rpm
Changed the colors.
python-virtinst
virtinst is a module to help in starting installations inside of
virtual machines. It supports both paravirt guests as well as
fully virtualized guests. It uses libvirt (http://www.libvirt.org)
for starting things. Also contained is a simple
script virt-install which uses virtinst in a command line mode.
It was only configured to know about TUV virtual machines. We added
a patch so that it knew about Scientific Linux, and thus be able to
install SL paravirtual machines.
* python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.sl.noarch.rpm
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
* priorities have been set on the repositories. But you have to have
* yum-priorities installed for them to take effect.
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=adobe 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-conf-epel has been added so that people could use the epel yum
* repository. This rpm requires both yum-provides and yum-fastestmirror
* yum-3.2.8-10.sl.noarch.rpm
yum-autoupdate-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-52-2.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-5x-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-epel-5-1.noarch.rpm
* yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.el5_2.6.noarch.rpm
* yum-updatesd-0.9-2.sl.noarch.rpm
Apache
Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to
have SL info.
* httpd-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* httpd-manual-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* mod_ssl-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
Changed in order to be built
Some rpm's had to be changed in order for us to build them.
The following rpm's had to have a variable changed so that they
point to the current include file
brlapi-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
brlapi-devel-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
brltty-3.7.2-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
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/SL/
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The Upstream Vendor's release 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.
Scientific Linux has 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.
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/contrib/
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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
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/updates/
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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.
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/../SRPMS/
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/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
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/../archive/
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/obsolete/
Packages that used to be in the release but have been
updated
/debuginfo/
Debuginfo packages
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LIMITATIONS
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ipw2100, ipw2200, 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.
NVIDIA motherboard chipsets
May need to use
linux noapic
to install.
Intel 965 motherboard chipset
May need to use
linux all-generic-ide
if you have pata hardware
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