>>>>> "Connie" == Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> writes: Connie> Scientific Linux (SL) Release Candidate 2 May 3, 2004 Connie> This is only a summary of the changes made since the release of April 26, Connie> 2004. Connie> Release is expected next week. Connie, thanks for all your work and the nice documentation. I feel I owe you some comments, even if I haven't managed to convert our own distribution to SL (yet), lack of time but not of interest. * you are shipping a number of zz_* RPMS in the "base" SL distribution - I understood that this prefix was actually used for Fermi-specific customizations in the past, and I wonder whether these should appear in the general release: zz_desktop_tweeks-1.1-1 zz_inittab_change-1.0-4 zz_kernel_clean-1.0-2 zz_libg2c.a_change-3.2.3-1 zz_no_colorls-1.0-1 zz_sendmail_accept-1.0-2 * You also seem to have a number of RedHat-compiled RPMs in the distribution, which could be problematic because of the "update service license" for Red Hat Enterprise. I haven't checked whether all of these RPMs come directly from RHE3 (but at least some like xfig do, same timestamps): rpm -qp --nosignature --qf "%-30{NAME}\t%{VENDOR}\t%{BUILDHOST}\n" linux/scientific/30rolling/i386/SL/RPMS/*rpm | grep -i "redhat" | wc -l 300 I suggest at least to check whether all of these are "legal" to ship (coming e.f from Fedora), and perhaps replace them with e.g. the CERN-recompiled ones from http://linuxsoft/cern/cel3/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ Best regards jan