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Hello,
I have pushed out the openafs and kdepim-runtime packages into the 
6rolling repository.  So you should be able to install them with yum.

openafs isn't in the comps.xml file yet, but I wanted to get it out as 
soon as possible so that people could test it.

Troy

Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> We have released the third Alpha of Scientific Linux 6.
> 
> The release is at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/
> 
> DVD and Net Install downloads are at
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/
> 
> FIXED/CHANGED IN ALPHA 3:
> - SELinux - you no longer get an error about selinux during the install, 
> and the default install has it turned on.
> - ntp error - We believe the ntp error was because of the selinux 
> problems we were having.  When we fixed selinux, the ntp error went away.
> - Package Check
> We have compared our packages with The Upstream Vendor's, and found 
> several differences.  We have rebuilt around 240 packages, resulting in 
> around 360 binary packages that have changed.
> - revisor cleanup and documentation
> http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/build/sites
> This currently only has the "Quick and Easy text mode" for building your 
> own distribution, but expect it to grow.
> 
> KNOWN ISSUES:
> Packages that haven't been built, and aren't in the release.
> ekiga
> kdepim-runtime
> perl-Sys-Virt
> 
> There are no specialized pictures shown during the install.  Just the
> one that you see through the whole time.  We are attempting to get this
> fixed, but it isn't looking very likely.
> 
> We have not put in any external repos, such as EPEL or rpmforge.
> 
> CHANGES PLANNED FOR ALPHA 4 / BETA 1
> 
> We are planning on SL6 Alpha 4 or BETA 1 to be released Friday January 
> 7, 2011
> There might be some minor changes between now and then, but nothing major
> 
> Expected Updates for Alpha 4 / Beta 1
> - We will continue to compare our packages against The Upstream Vendor's
> packages, comparing everything in them.
> - Hopefully all of the rest of the trouble rpm's will be in the release.
> - Add yum repositories (not installed by default)
> - Work on graphics and overall look.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped thus far.
> The Scientific Linux Development Team
> 


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