On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Steven Timm wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Randy Evans wrote:
>>
>>> I am in the process of converting a number of CentOS machines to
>>> Scientific Linux.
>>>
>>> We have several machines which use Heartbeat and DRBD and these
>>> packages were available for install from the default repository in
>>> CentOS 5.5 but are not available in SL 5.5.  I thought, except for a
>>> few extra packages SL adds to their build, both were recompilations of
>>> RHEL and would have the same base packages available.
>>>
>>> I know there are additional repositories that can be enabled which
>>> would provide Heartbeat and DRBD but I am confused as to why there is
>>> a difference in the base packages.
>>
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/SRPMS/drbd/
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/drbd/
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/drbd/
>>
>> are all dated 2010 but suggest that someone was working on this.
>>
>>
>
> Yes--SL staff were working on this addition at the request of my group.
> Currently we are using the ones from atrpms under SL5 but we've asked
> them to add it to base SL for SL6.
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
>

We have no plans on putting drbd or heartbeat into SL 6 as they are 
available in other "commonly" used repos.

-Connie Sieh