On 02/25/2011 11:36 PM, Larry Vaden wrote:
> It is my understanding that Fermi is a hardened variant of SL and I thus wonder
>

Kerberized varient.  With all the kerberos stuff pointing to Fermilab's 
kerberos realm.
Not really the same as "hardened"
I really wouldn't suggest it, because you'd have to take out all the 
fermi stuff to get it to work correctly offsite Fermilab, and then you'd 
just be left with plain Scientific Linux.

> 1) is there a tentative release date for Fermi 5.6?
>

No, since there isn't a release date yet for plain SL 5.6

> 2) is the diff available as a script?
>

Not really, but here are the rpm's that we add/change for SLF5

http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/fermi/slf55/i386/sites/Fermi/SITERPMS/


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