I believe other announcements have already been made that the above
version of the kernel is only going to be available in SL 5.4 (for which
alpha release is already available) and that they will wait until
SL5.4 is released and the next errata kernel is available from redhat 
before back-porting it to the earlier SL5's.

I am not aware of any compelling technical reason not to jump to the
next release of SL5 once it comes out.

Steve Timm

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Winnie Lacesso wrote:

> Good day,
>
> On 2 Sept RHEL released a new RHEL 5 kernel:
>
> Important RHSA-2009:1243 Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 kernel
> security and bug fix update 2009-09-02
>
> It's kernel-2.6.18-164.el5
>
> It's not yet at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/x86_64/updates/security/
> so also not at our usuaul SL mirror.
>
> Is it in the pipeline soon so to speak?
>

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