Hello, Thus far I've received a number of positive responses. If we don't get any negative ones by 2pm tomorrow[1] we will consider this update working as expected and publish it with the security errata. Pat [1] For your local time you can run date -d '2012-03-21 14:00 CDT' On 03/15/2012 02:45 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: > The requested testing is ONLY for SL 5.7 and not other versions of SL. > > Hello, > > With the new firefox (firefox-10.*) the default location of the > bookmarks has changed. This means people who launch firefox for the > first time get the bookmarks from upstream. This is not preferred. > The deployment of the SL bookmarks happens in sl-release, which helps > the system identify its version. We have a new version of sl-release > for 5.7 posted in testing. I have versions for each other release on > hand should this update perform as expected. > > I would ask that some SL 5.7 users update sl-release with the package > from the sl-testing repository. > I would ask that non-SL 5.7 systems DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE. It > can put your system into a state where it says it is SL 5.7 when it is > not which can create lots of confusion. > > SL 5.7 users are asked to do the following: > > yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update sl-release > > Please run your system for a bit as normal and report back on the > state of firefox, its bookmarks, and that lsb_release reports back > exactly as before the update. > > Just for maximum clarity: The requested testing is ONLY for SL 5.7 and > not for other versions of SL. > > Thank you for your assistance, > > Pat > -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer