Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Hi Troy, > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: > >> Howdy, >> As Ioannis has already said RHEL 5 was released. >> >> It was released on the birhtday of Albert Einstein, *and*, it was released at >> the time of pi. 3-14 1:59:26 (OK, so I can't verify the seconds, let's just >> pretend they got it) >> I think that is a very fitting release to begin to compile and turn into >> Scientific Linux. > > Right. > >> So the real work of building Scientific Linux 5 has begun. > > Great. > >> Step 1 is to recompile all of the source rpm's from RedHat, on a machine >> running the alpha release of S.L.5. >> Step 2 is to reinstall that machine with these new rpm's, and then recompile >> all the source rpm's from RedHat ... again. >> This ensures the batter is light and frothy. > > Would anyone care to explain that to a european? Please reply off list, > I'll post a summary... > >> Wait, no, it makes sure that the binary rpm's have been compiled with the >> correct libraries. >> >> After step 1 and step 2 are done, we will put all the binaries into a >> distribution and that will be our first beta release. Then we will shake out >> the bugs, tweek, and fine tune things. >> >> What is the timeframe: >> This is just a educated guess. This is just to answer the question before >> people ask it. In the words of the upstream vendor, "we will release it when >> it's ready." >> First Beta - two weeks, so sometime around March 30 >> Final Release - anywhere from 1 month to 2 months. If everything works >> perfect, let's say April 16. But I'd love to have it out no later than May >> 14. > > So, when are you going to release it? ;-) > >> The Whiteboard: >> The whiteboard is sortof a copy of the whiteboard in my office. I will try to >> keep it updated so you can see what's going on. It's web location is at >> >> https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/rolling.whiteboard > > Since it's on that whiteboard: I've put up my latest OpenAFS SRPM here: > > http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL5/openafs.SLx-1.4.3-0.rc3.41.src.rpm > > Changes are really becoming incremental at this stage. I keep tracking the > CVS, the mailing lists, and the bug tracker and put in the patches I think > I fully understand and that clearly fix bugs. There's one such patch > in rc3 that was not in our rc2 build, and one more in this package > that was not in rc3. Both bugs seem to strike under rather special > circumstances only, but they do exist. While what's in the current alpha > is certainly at least of alpha quality, and hopefully much better, please > use the above SRPM for SL5 beta - unless I come up with something even > better before ;-) > > I verified that it builds and works on EL5 as released yesterday, at least > with the el5xen kernel running in dom0 on x86_64 - the remaining > configurations still have to be tested asap, but I don't expect any > problems. > > Cheers, > Stephan > > PS Since the whiteboard has a questionmark behind gv: I got it to build > on EL5. Want the SRPM? > Oh, the question mark behind gv, ncurses4 and readline41 was whether we need them in the distribution or not. I was told in SL4 that several experiments needed them, and I was just wondering if that was still the case. Basically just wanted to ask if anybody is still using these packages. Since you already had gv recompiled for SL5 alpha, I am supposing that you use it, so we should keep it in. Is youre src rpm for gv newer than the one in SL4? (gv-3.5.8-29.src.rpm) Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________