The Scientific Linux developers are pleased to announce our "Very Alpha Release" of Scientific Linux 5.0 This is not for production use. This release will change *dramatically* before the final release. You have been warned. Below are the changes from The Upstream Vendor Beta 2 release -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Site https://www.scientificlinux.org FTP ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/ Mailing Lists [log in to unmask] Development of Scientific Linux [log in to unmask] Users of Scientific Linux supporting each other [log in to unmask] Announcements concerning Scientific Linux [log in to unmask] Announcements about Security Errata ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDED compared to vendor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- nedit NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System and Motif. nedit-5.5-10.i386.rpm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed RPMS compared to vendor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- yum-3.0-5.5.SL.noarch.rpm yum-conf-50-0.2.rolling.SL.noarch.rpm gdm-2.16.0-19.SL.1.i386.rpm There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release. We have changed the "rpms" that are required to be changed. These changes are defined by the "vendor". redhat-logos-4.9.8-1.SL.3.noarch.rpm redhat-artwork-5.0.5-21.SL.1.i386.rpm sl-release-5.0-1.i386.rpm sl-release-notes-5.0-2.i386.rpm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Client /Server /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUVv5b2 consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client. Each cd set has a group of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the Client cd this consists of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT, Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the same rpms on each cd. The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms along with many unique rpms. I have combined the 2 cd sets into 1 big tree. If a rpm is in multiple directories I have made it via a hard link to save disk space We are not sure if we will keep this big tree of directories or not. It has the advantage as having the same tree structure as RHELv5b2. To install the rpms in /VT /Workstation /Cluster /ClusterStorage you need to enter V for VT and W for Workstation and C for Cluster and S for ClustorStorage at the "key" prompt in the installer. This is code from TUVv5b2. It will be changed in our next beta. So to install all of these you would put in VWCS at the "keys" prompt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /SRPMS/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the moment, TUV SRPM's are still on the TUV's publically available ftp server. When we get them up, they will be at scientific/5rolling/SRPMS/vendor/original Our modified SRPMS are at scientific/5rolling/SRPMS/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There were some RPMS that did not build yet. For those packages we have used the publically available packages from TUV. The largest of these is openoffice. There are about 7 other smaller packages where we have done this as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________