On 07/13/2012 08:35 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>
>> An updated evdev was posted yesterday, that should resolve it.
>
> Where was this ?
>
> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/updates/security/ 
>
> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/updates/security/ 
>
> and
> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/testing/x86_64/xorg-x11-drv/ 
>
> show many files as six months old, eg
> xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.6.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm    13-Dec-2011 09:01
>

Many of the rpms published yesterday were originally released with SL6.2 
and have been added to the security tree for compatibility with the new 
xorg-x11-server packages.  Drivers which upstream provided as updates 
with 6.3 were pushed along with the remaining drivers from 6.2 as they 
are compatible with the updated xorg server.

David reported he is on SL6.0, for him this package is an update.  The 
same is true for SL6.1.  People on SL6.2 already have this version of 
evdev.  However, the updated xorg-x11-drv-{intel,ati,mga}* are a part of 
6.3 and are new to everyone.

I recognize that this can be somewhat confusing, I hope this is helpful 
in explaining this.

-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer