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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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The first beta release for Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for
both i386 and x86_64.

It will install, and works fairly good, but no major testing has been done.

We have created a DVD for i386.
We have found the bug with x86_64 DVD building, but the x86_64 DVD 
hasn't finished being built and tested.  It will be comming soon.

This biggest change was the comps.xml files.    The Upstream Vendor made 
some changes in their comps files that totally threw off our usual way 
of updating the comps. See below for more details.

The second biggest change is that we now have the

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DOWNLOAD INFO
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  http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
  http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64
  http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/iso

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CHANGES by Scientific Linux
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**madwifi
**
**	Support for the Atheros chipset in now in the kernel and release
**	Because of this support, we have taken it out of 5.4
**	If it is still needed, we will put it back in.
**	This is just a test to see if we can live without it.


**OpenAFS
**
**	We have put in the latest 1.4.11 release of openafs
**
i386:
**	openafs-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-authlibs-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-client-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-compat-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-debug-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-devel-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-kernel-source-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-kpasswd-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-krb5-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**	openafs-server-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5PAE-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
**kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5xen-1.4.11-76.sl5.i686.rpm
x86_64:
**	openafs-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-authlibs-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-client-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-compat-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-debug-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-devel-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-kernel-source-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-kpasswd-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-krb5-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**	openafs-server-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm
**kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5xen-1.4.11-76.sl5.x86_64.rpm

**XFS
**
**	Because the xfs driver is now in the kernel we are removing
**	  kernel-module-xfs, xfs, xfs-filesystem
**	We are still providing the utilities needed to manage XFS
**	  xfsdump, xfsprogs, dmapi

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CHANGES by The Upstream Vendor
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**etherboot-pxes, etherboot-roms, etherboot-zroms
**etherboot-roms-kvm, etherboot-zroms-kvm
*	Added by Vendor
*	x86_64 only
Note: These aren't new for 5.4, it's just that we didn't get them into 
the Alpha release, but wanted to note that they have now been added.

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Comps CHANGES
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**comps.xml

**In Update 4 The Upstream Vendor added packages, and changed their
**x86_64 comps.xml to be different than their i386 version.
**We have updated our comps.xml to reflect their changes in packages and 
groups
**We have also updated our comps.xml file to be friendly to more languages.

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