On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Eli Dart wrote:

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> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Whatever the latest security kernel is when we get to Release Candidate 2.
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> OK - do you anticipate that it will be some flavor of 2.6.18, or will it
> be a later version?

2.6.18 from TUV is really 2.6.18 + a whole bunch of back ported patches 
from 2.6.18+ .  TUV does not change the "base" number during a release, in 
this case SL 5.  But that does not mean that alot of patches have not been 
backported.

It will have a version of 2.6.18 but in reality it is much , much more.

If you run the following command you will get a small idea of what patches 
are in TUV kernel and thus ours.  You can download the kernel in this 
alpha and look at those change logs too.  Just add a p to the -q -- -qp
and a full file name instead of "kernel"

     rpm -q --changelog kernel
     rpm -qp --changelog kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.i686.rpm

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> (the reason I'm asking has to do with the default TCP congestion control
> algorithms supplied with various kernel versions, and the bugs that they
> do or do not have).

If you give more detail I will look to see if they have been included.  If 
there is a TUV bugzilla entered then the bugzilla number would be useful.

-Connie Sieh

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> Thanks,
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> 		--eli
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>> Troy
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>> Eli Dart wrote:
>> Hi Troy,
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>> What kernel version will ship with SL5.5?
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>> Thanks,
>>
>>         --eli
>>
>> Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>>> The first alpha release for Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for
>>>>> both i386 and x86_64. This release has most of the new updated packages
>>>>> from The Upstream Vendors Update 5.
>>>>>
>>>>> It will install, and it appears to work, but no major testing has been
>>>>> done.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are working on the DVD's and will let you know when/if they are
>>>>> available.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> DOWNLOAD INFO
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/i386
>>>>>   http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/x86_64
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CHANGES by Scientific Linux
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *    sl-release-5.5-0.1.rolling.i386.rpm
>>>>> *    sl-release-notes-5.5-0.1.rolling.noarch.rpm
>>>>> *    yum-conf-55-0.1.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm
>>>>> *    yum-conf-5x-1-9.SL.noarch.rpm
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> CHANGES by The Upstream Vendor
>>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *freeradius2 - Added
>>>>>
>>>>> *gsl -- Added
>>>>>
>>>>> *openoffice.org -- Updated to 3.1.1
>>>>>
>>>>> *postgresql84 -- Added
>>>>> -- postgresql84 cannot be installed alongside postgreql
>>>>> -- postgresql databased are fundamentally different than postgreql84
>>>>> databases.  Because of that in order to update you have to do a dump of
>>>>> the postgresql database, and then restore to a postgresql84 database
>>>>>
>>>>> *samba3x -- Added
>>>>>
>>>>> *tzdata
>>>>> -- Changed from noarch to i386
>>>>> -- added tzdata-java
>>>>>
>>>>> *xz -- Added
>>
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