Please test the following release. There should only be minor changes before the release. We plan on testing this for at least a week. -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Linux "SL 5.0 Release Candidate 2.0" for i386 April 20, 2007 Items marked with a "**" indicate changes compared to SL5rc1.5 See SL.documentation for the vendor release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDED compared to vendor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- **cfitsio ** ** CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and ** writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format ** CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community. ** ** cfitsio-3.030-1.sl5.i386.rpm ** cfitsio-devel-3.030-1.sl5.i386.rpm **JAVA ** *** ** This packages is the java sdk from sun. ** It's license is found at misc/licenses/j2sdk-1.4.2-x.license ** To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you should ** also install java-1.4.2-sun-compat ** So the easiest thing to do is ** yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat ** as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.5.0 rpm. ** ** java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.11-1jpp.noarch.rpm ** ** This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and ** directories for Sun's JDK rpm. **Perl-Modules **These perl modules have been added as they are useful. ** ** perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm ** perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm ** perl-SQL-Statement-1.06-1.noarch.rpm ** perl-TermReadKey-2.20-12.i386.rpm ** perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.i386.rpm ** perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm ** perl-TimeDate-2.22-1.noarch.rpm ** perl-Tk-804.027-1.i386.rpm **SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-6.noarch.rpm ** ** 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. ** gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.i386.rpm from Stephan Wiesand ** redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.5.noarch.rpm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed RPMS compared to vendor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** sl-release-5.0-4.i386.rpm ** sl-release-notes-5.0-4.noarch.rpm ** ** yum-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the latest ** stable release. It is always pointing at the 5x area. This means ** that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgraded to ** them. ** ** yum-conf-50-1.SL.noarch.rpm ** yum-conf-5x-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm **Apache ** Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to ** have SL info. ** httpd-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm ** httpd-devel-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm ** httpd-manual-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm ** mod_ssl-2.2.3-6.sl.i386.rpm -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________