On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Yasha Karant wrote:

> As has been made clear, no "conspiracy" in terms of getting the matter
> ported -- simply a possibly different set of impediments to building
> from source.  (Anyone checked if the Oracle EL7 port is done yet?  What
> about the Princeton port?)  The "conspiracy" will be visible if there
> are significant performance degradations of CentOS 7 source compared to
> real RHEL source build distros/ports, and if RHEL 7 intended "codes" (as
> from the commercial sector) do not work on the CentOS based distros.
> The real "conspiracy", if any, would be for security compromises left
> open in the CentOS based ports compared with the RHEL real source based
> distro.
>
> This was done in short order, not long after CentOS released
> pre-production distros.  CentOS, as a division of Red Hat, presumably
> had a simpler job than the SL team, unless of course there were sub-rosa
> details from Red Hat to CentOS that also then went to SL.  Is SL still a
> separate distro, or is it in fact a CentOS SIG/variant (probably the
> latter given that RHEL source was not used, but rather CentOS)?

SL is still a separate distro.

From the "announcement" "These packages were built at Fermilab from TUV's 
sources." .

>
> A practical question:  will any alpha or beta SL 7 distro based install
> be able to change into 7x production or will a full reinstall be required?

It is suggested that a new install be done as we do not know what issues 
would happen with the continued use of this pre production version.

>
> Yasha Karant
>
> On 07/04/2014 04:37 AM, Bill Maidment wrote:
>> Pat
>> That's amazing work by you guys. So much for all the conspiracy theories ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> -----Original message-----
>>> From:Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday 4th July 2014 7:23
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>>> Subject: Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA
>>>
>>> Users interested in Scientific Linux 7 ALPHA can review:
>>>
>>> http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1407&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&X=30246605F08F0DC7ED&P=74
>>>
>>> --
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>

-Connie Sieh