There are not any changes between RC2 and this release other than a few
more SRPMS that have been uploaded to the ftp/http/rsync servers .
Thanks to all who have tested this release.
> Scientific Linux 6.8 RC 2 i386/x86_64 July 8, 2016
>
>
> These are notes of the "Release Candidate" release for Scientific Linux 6.8
> .
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION.
>
> This is for testing. Please report back any issues to
> [log in to unmask] .
>
> There should be no expectation that a "yum" upgrade to SL 6.8 will work.
> A new install is the recommended method to move from
> "sl6rolling" and the released SL 6.8.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> DOWNLOAD INFO
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Network Install Images:
>
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/i386/images/boot.iso
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/x86_64/images/boot.iso
>
>
> Iso Download area
>
> i686:
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/i386/iso/
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/i386/iso/README
>
> x86_64:
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/x86_64/iso/
> http: //ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.8/x86_64/iso/README
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Major Differences from SL 6.7
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PACKAGES ADDED/CHANGED
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> OpenAFS
> OpenAFS has been updated to version 1.6.18 from openafs.org
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CHANGED compared to Enterprise 6
> Packages Changed by Scientific Linux
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Packages modified by Scientific Linux should contain 'sl' within their
> release string.
> Packages can be changed for a few reasons - removing trademarks, fixing
> errors, providing different behavior, or fixing build issues. Each of the
> changed packages below lists is reason for its change along with some
> historical information.
>
>
> httpd
> Changed the default index.html to remove upstream's branding.
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> plymouth
> Removed the red colors for text mode.
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> redhat-logos
> Changed all trademarked icons and pictures from upstream.
> Changed styles of items such as background, gdm, and kdm to change
> the
> tradedress style.
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> sl-bookmarks
> sl-bookmarks replaces redhat-bookmarks and removes upstream
> branding
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> sl-indexhtml
> sl-indexhtml replaces redhat-indexhtml and removes upstream
> branding
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> sl-release
> sl-release replaces redhat-release and removes upstream branding
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> sl-release-notes
> sl-release-notes replaces Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes*
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> anaconda
> Add the Scientific Linux install classes
> DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> redhat-rpm-config
> Changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an Enterprise Linux
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> xorg-x11-server
> Changed to remove TUV's support URL
> This change went into effect with SL 6.3 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PACKAGES CHANGED FOR BUILDING REASONS
>
>
> Some packages would not build in our build environment. We changed these
> packages in order for them, or other packages, to build. The changes are
> minimal and are associated with a bug filed upstream to hopefully reduce
> this list over time. The final packages have been compared to freely
> available ones and are not significantly different.
>
>
> To distinguish these packages we typically put 0.sl6 at the end of the
> release number.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> epydoc
> To fix a build error with python-nss a patch was added (bz#578920)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and was fixed by upstream
> in
> 6.1 . For some features texlive-dvips and texlive-latex are
> required,
> but not listed in the SPEC file. (bz#522249)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> mod_auth_kerb
> We Changed "--with-krb5=/usr/kerberos" to "--with-krb5=/usr"
> because
> the krb location changed in SL6. (bz#661777)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and ended with SL 6.3
>
>
> opal
> opal needed a bug fix patch in order for ekiga to build. The
> opal-3.6.6-buildopts.patch was missing one line for it to work
> properly.
> (bz#661769)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> pilot-link
> When "autoreconf -is" is called this causes libtool to run from
> /usr/bin/libtool which is version 2.2.6b but the source ships its
> own
> libtool in
> pilot-link-0.12.4/libtool which is version 2.2.6 and called from
> the
> make files. This version mix does not work. (bz#663632)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> rome
> TUV 6 provides jdom-1.1.1 and not jdom-1.0 so we changed it to
> 1.1.1
> (bz#665537)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> qpid-cpp
> The SPEC file wrongly mandates TUV be listed as the vendor
> (bz#785919)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and ended in SL 6.3
>
>
> qpid-qmf
> The SPEC file wrongly mandates TUV be listed as the vendor
> (bz#785921)
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and ended in SL 6.3
>
>
> compat-openmpi
> One of the post-build tests was not functioning correctly with
> build
> environments containing nfs mounts. Patched with corresponding test
> from current version. (bz#1340549)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CHANGES TO COMPS.XML
>
>
> The comps.xml file determines what packages are in groups. This determines
> what packages get installed automatically when you select a group during
> install, or when you use yum groupinstall.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> We have made the following changes to comps.
>
>
> We merged all of the comps.xml files from The Upstream Vendor into one
> file for each arch. If a group was in any of TUV comps.xml files, for that
> arch, then it was included in our comps.xml file. If a group was default
> for either of TUV comps.xml, then is was made default in our comps.xml
> file. If a package was in a group for either of TUV comps.xml files, then
> it was put in that group in our comps.xml file.
>
> Added the following groups:
>
>
> icewm
> misc-sl
> openafs-client
> repos
> spins
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> REMOVED COMPARED TO ENTERPRISE 6
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> rhn-client-tools
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> rhnlib
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> rhnsd
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> rhn-setup-gnome
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> subscription-manager
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
> In 6.8 we added subscription-manager- back into the release.
>
> yum-rhn-plugin
> We cannot provide RHN connections, so we have removed the RHN
> tools.
> People requiring RHN must use Enterprise Linux from upstream
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> vdsm
> Was accidentally released by TUV. This is a part of RHEV and not
> Enterprise Linux so it has been removed.
> This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this
> release.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ADDED compared to Enterprise 6
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PACKAGES ADDED
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> We have added several packages to Scientific Linux that are not found
> anywhere on the Enterprise releases. These have been added for various
> reasons which are noted below.
>
>
> icewm
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Summary : Fast and small X11 window manager
> Added because we needed a lightweight modern window manager. There
> are
> some machines that just don't have much CPU and/or memory, and both
> KDE and GNOME can really slow these machines down.
> This is not installed by default.
>
>
> icewm
> icewm-l10n
> imlib - for dependencies
> gtk+ - for dependencies
> glib - for dependencies
>
>
> OpenAFS
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Summary : OpenAFS distributed filesystem
> Added because many educational and research centers around the
> world
> use AFS as some type of central file system.
> This is not installed by default.
>
>
> openafs
> openafs-authlibs
> openafs-client
> openafs-compat
> openafs-firstboot
> openafs-kernel-source
> openafs-kpasswd
> openafs-krb5
> openafs-plumbing-tools
> openafs-server
> kmod-openafs
>
>
> revisor, livecd-tools, liveusb-creator
> This was added with SL 6.0 and moved into 'sl-adons' in 6.4.
> Summary : Scientific Linux Spin Creation
> Tools to create Scientific Linux "Spins" or "Sites"
> This was not installed by default.
>
>
> revisor
> revisor-cli
> revisor-gui
> revisor-isolinux
> revisor-rebrand
> revisor-reuseinstaller
> revisor-unity-scripts
> sl-revisor-configs
> livecd-tools
> liveusb-creator
>
>
> yum-autoupdate
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Summary : Automatically update your machine daily via yum.
> Added for those users who want their system automatically updated
> without having to worry about doing it by hand.
> This is installed by default.
>
> yum-autoupdate
>
>
> abattis-cantarell-fonts
> This was added with SL 6.1 and continues in this release.
> Summary : Cantarell, a Humanist sans-serif font family
> Added because our new graphical theme uses this font.
> This is not installed by default.
>
>
> abattis-cantarell-fonts
>
> glusterfs-server
> These became dependancies and were added as of SL 6.8.
> Summary : Cluster file system
> The following packages were added in support of glusterfs-server.
> These are not installed by default. glusterfs-server is offered as
> x86_64 only.
>
>
> nfs-ganesha
> nfs-ganesha-gluster
> userspace-rcu - for dependencies
> userspace-rcu-devel - for dependencies
> pyxattr - for dependencies
>
> alpine
>
> Alpine had been added in the past but was removed from 6.8 as it is
> in EPEL.
>
> External Repositories for yum
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Summary : Various External Yum Repositories
> These are not supported by Scientific Linux but are here for your
> convenience.
> This is not installed by default.
>
>
> adobe-release / yum-conf-adobe
> atrpms-repo / yum-conf-atrpms
> elrepo-release / yum-conf-elrepo
> epel-release / yum-conf-epel
> rpmforge-release / yum-conf-rpmforge
> rpmfusion-free-release / yum-conf-rpmfusion
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tweak RPMs ADDED
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> One of the goals of Scientific Linux is to be as close to the original
> vendor release of Enterprise Linux. But there are several things that
> people want to change, for one reason or another. In order to have both
> worlds we have created these tweak rpm's, more commonly known as SL rpm's.
> These rpm's can be added or removed to add or remove a feature. It is up
> the individual user to determine if they want a particular feature or not.
> None of these packages are installed by default unless it is noted that
> they are.
>
>
> SL_desktop_tweaks
> This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for GNOME. It also
> adds
> the "add/remove programs" menu item to KDE.
> Installed by default for the GNOME and KDE desktop groups.
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Who Needs This?
> Pretty much any previous desktop user of linux. It's not a
> necessity,
> and the icons can be added manually, but it's much nicer to just
> have
> them there from the start.
>
>
> SL_enable_serialconsole
> This script makes all the changes necessary to send console output
> to
> both the serial port and the screen. This also creates a login
> prompt
> on the serial port and allows users to login at this prompt.
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Who Needs This?
> Headless servers that want to redirect their output through their
> serial console during bootup, and also plan on logging in on
> those consoles.
>
>
> Note: It is usually best to install this package after an install. You can
> either do this by hand, or in the %post section of a kickstart file. This
> is because the grub file and bootloader aren't created during an install,
> until after all the packages are installed.
> There are 4 packages, which correspond to a serial port speed
>
>
> SL_enable_serialconsole
> SL_enable_serialconsole-96 (9600 baud)
> SL_enable_serialconsole-192 (19200 baud)
> SL_enable_serialconsole-384 (38400 baud)
> SL_enable_serialconsole-1152 (115200 baud)
>
>
> SL_no_colorls
> Turns off automatic colors in ls.
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Who Needs This?
> People who don't like the colorized ls or whose terminals can't
> read
> the escape sequences.
>
>
> SL_password_for_singleuser
> Changes /etc/sysconfit/init to require the root password for single
> user mode.
> This was added with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.
> Who Needs This?
> In our opinion, everyone needs this. We're quite surprised that
> Enterprise Linux isn't this way by default. If you are concerned
> about
> someone getting root access to your computer by just sitting down
> to
> it, then this is something you will want to install along with
> setting a GRUB password.
>
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