Troy J Dawson wrote: > Hello, > We have released the first Beta of Scientific Linux 6. > > The release is at > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/ > > DVD and Net Install downloads are at > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/i386/iso/ > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/ > > > ***CHANGED SINCE ALPHA 5*** > *OpenAFS fixed* > The selinux openafs problem has been fixed. > > *SL_password_for_singleuser fixed* > The mechanism to enforce password authentication has changed, that's now > configured in /etc/sysconfig/init. This update reflects that change. > > *Compiled packages against TUV packages* > We have finished the check of our packages against TUV packages. We > check files, permissions, scripts, requires, depends, and a few other > checks. When there was a discrepancy we rebuilt our package using > different parameters to match TUV packages. > With this release we fixed the following packages. > elinks > jwhois > perl-CGI-Session > perl-IPC-Run3 > perl-Makefile-Parser > perl-Sys-Virt > perl-Test-Memory-Cycle > > > ***KNOWN ISSUES*** > If you install openafs during the install, you do not get the firstboot > screen that asks you which cell you want. > > If you are on a x86_64 machine, install the adobe repo, and install > flash-plugin and/or AdobeReader_enu, you will get AdobeReader_<random > language> in addition to what you asked for. You will also get many > i686 packages installed for dependancies. > > > ***CHANGES PLANNED FOR BETA 2*** > > We are planning on SL6 BETA 2 to be released Friday January > 22, 2011 January 28, 2011 (We're not good enough to have it ready by tomorrow) > > Expected Updates for Beta 2 > - yum-autoupdate and possibly yum-cron. Both of these with > automatically update your system nightly. The goal is for both of these > packages to be independent and not conflict with each other. > - get openafs firstboot to run correctly. This is going to involve a > rewrite, so will take longer than we expected. > > Thanks to everyone who has tested and helped thus far. > The Scientific Linux Development Team > Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __________________________________________________