Hello,

Thus far I've received a number of positive responses.  If we don't get 
any negative ones by 2pm tomorrow[1] we will consider this update 
working as expected and publish it with the security errata.

Pat

[1] For your local time you can run date -d '2012-03-21 14:00 CDT'

On 03/15/2012 02:45 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> The requested testing is ONLY for SL 5.7 and not other versions of SL.
>
> Hello,
>
> With the new firefox (firefox-10.*) the default location of the
> bookmarks has changed.  This means people who launch firefox for the
> first time get the bookmarks from upstream.  This is not preferred.
> The deployment of the SL bookmarks happens in sl-release, which helps
> the system identify its version.  We have a new version of sl-release
> for 5.7 posted in testing.  I have versions for each other release on
> hand should this update perform as expected.
>
> I would ask that some SL 5.7 users update sl-release with the package
> from the sl-testing repository.
> I would ask that non-SL 5.7 systems DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE.  It
> can put your system into a state where it says it is SL 5.7 when it is
> not which can create lots of confusion.
>
> SL 5.7 users are asked to do the following:
>
> yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update sl-release
>
> Please run your system for a bit as normal and report back on the
> state of firefox, its bookmarks, and that lsb_release reports back
> exactly as before the update.
>
> Just for maximum clarity: The requested testing is ONLY for SL 5.7 and
> not for other versions of SL.
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
>
> Pat
>


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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer