Scientific Linux "SL 5.9" for x86_64                      Feb 5, 2013

Items marked with a "*" indicate changes since 5.8

See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes.

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Table of contents

        DOWNLOAD INFO
        ADDED compared to Enterprise 5
        UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5
           Installer/legal modifications
        REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5
        CHANGED by Upstream Vendor
        /contrib
        SRPMS
        HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
        LIMITATIONS
        INFO
        ERRATA

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DOWNLOAD INFO
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        http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/
        http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/
        ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/x86_64/

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915resolution

        915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900
        series  Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and
        865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This
        modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics
        resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server.
        915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is
        no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that
        915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for
        it's changes to take effect.

        915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the
        code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler.
        915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel.

        915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5

alpine

        Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.
        Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing &
        Communications at the University of Washington.
        Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to
        our 1.0 version
        An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer overwriting
        an existing pine.conf  Therefore an existing pine.conf in /etc/alpine
        will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For an installation from
        scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample conf file to pine.conf,
        but alpine works also without it.
        Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile

        This version of alpine when it writes to a large old Unix mailbox format
        email area can be very slow.  The best solution to this is to convert
        your old Unix mailbox files to "mix" format mail files.
        More info can be obtained from

        Evaluation of file formats:
        
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000971.html
        Problem description:
        
http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-February/thread.html#1658
        Conversion :
        
http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-imap/198358-mailutil-mix-file-size.html

        alpine-2.02-2.el5

AUFS

        Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs,
        which unifies several directories and provides a merged single
        directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented
        Unionfs.

        aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5
*       kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
*       kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm

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-3.100-1.el5
        cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5

dkms

        This package contains the framework for the Dynamic
        Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing
        module RPMS as originally developed by Dell.

*       Updated dkms to the latest version from EPEL

*       dkms-2.2.0.3-1.el5


dropit
        dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from  a
        PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields.
        dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files.

        dropit-1.2-1

fftw

        FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier
        Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex
        data, and of arbitrary input size.
        Part of scipy.

        fftw3-3.1.2-5.el5.1
        fftw3-devel-3.1.2-5.el5.1

FUSE

        Is now provided by the Upstream Vendor and thus is included.

fuse-smb

        fuse-Filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via smb
        With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood
        as were it on your own filesystem

        fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL

fuse-sshfs

        This is a FUSE-filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer
        Protocol.  Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it
        is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.
        On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into
        the server with ssh.

        Newer versions are now in EPEL

        fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.SL

gnuplot42

        gnuplot42 is the 4.2 version of gnuplot.  It has several functions that
        were not available in the SL5 gnuplot 4.0 version.

        gnuplot42-4.2.6-6.el5
        gnuplot42-doc-4.2.6-6.el5
        gnuplot42-latex-4.2.6-6.el5

Graphviz

        Graph Visualization Tools

        graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-doc-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-gd-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-graphs-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-guile-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-java-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-lua-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-perl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-php-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-python-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-ruby-2.24.0-1.el5.sl
        graphviz-tcl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl

icewm

        A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.

        icewm-1.2.37-1.2
        icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.2

imlib

        Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and
        rendering library.  A dependency of icewm.

        imlib-1.9.15-11.el5
        imlib-devel-1.9.15-11.el5

Intel wireless firmware (ucode)

        The firmware (ucode) provided in these packages are required to be
        present on your system in order for the respective Intel? Wireless
        drivers to be able to operate on your system.

        On adapter initialization, and at varying times during the uptime of
        the adapter, the microcode is loaded into the RAM on the network
        adapter.  The microcode provides the low level MAC features including
        radio control and high precision timing events (backoff, transmit,
        etc.) while also providing varying levels of packet filtering which can
        be used to keep the host from having to handle packets that are not of
        interest given the current operating mode of the device.

        These packages contains all releases of the firmware up to the version
        stated, as well as their respective README documents.

        ipw3945 was removed in SL 5.4, it was replaced by iwlwifi and
        it's 3945 ucode (firmware)
        iwlwifi-XXXX-ucode was replaced with iwlXXXX-firmware in SL 5.7
        This replacement was to be more inline with TUV.

        ipw2100-firmware-1.3-10.noarch.rpm
        ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.noarch.rpm
        iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-2.el5.noarch.rpm
        iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-4.el5.noarch.rpm
        iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-8.el5.noarch.rpm
        iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el5.noarch.rpm
        iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm
        iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm

ndiswrapper

*       The previously bundled ndiswrapper package has been removed in SL5.9
*       The package no longer built successfully against the current kernel.
*       Current ndiswrapper kernel module and utility packages are avalible
*       in external repos such as elrepo.

JAVA

*       The closed-source Java 6 packages are end of life as of Feb 2013.
*       They are not included in SL5 starting with SL5.9 .  Openjdk 1.6 and
*       1.7 are included by TUV. It is believed that openjdk is an acceptable
*       replacement.
*       The closed-source packages can still be downloaded from
*       http://java.sun.com/

kdeedu

        Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE
        kstars is part of this package

        kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5
        kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5

lua

        Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for
        extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
        general-purpose, stand-alone language.
        Dependency of graphwiz.

        lua-5.1.2-1.el5
        lua-devel-5.1.2-1.el5

Multimedia

        gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl    from SL4
        gstreamer-plugins-fluendo-0.10-14.el5
        k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl                 from livna Repository

        These are dependencies of the above rpms.

        lame-3.97-1.sl                  from RPMforge
        lame-devel-3.97-1.sl            from RPMforge
        libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl          from RPMforge
        libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl    from RPMforge
        libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl             from RPMforge
        libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl       from RPMforge
        taglib-1.4-1.2.sl               from RPMforge
        taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl         from RPMforge

NumPy

        http://numpy.scipy.org//
        NumPy derives from the old Numeric code base and can be used as a
        replacement for Numeric.  It also adds the features introduced by
        Numarray and can also be used to replace Numarray.

        This package contains:
          - a powerful N-dimensional array object
          - sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
          - basic linear algebra functions
          - basic Fourier transforms
          - sophisticated random number capabilities
          - tools for integrating Fortran code.

        numpy-1.2.1-1

OpenAFS

        We have put in the 1.4.14 release of openafs.

        openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL
        openafs-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-authlibs-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-client-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-compat-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-debug-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-devel-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-kernel-source-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-kpasswd-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-krb5-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
        openafs-server-1.4.14-80.1.sl5
*       kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-348.el5-1.4.14-80.1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
*       kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-348.el5xen-1.4.14-80.1.sl5.x86_64.rpm


perl modules
        These perl modules have been added as they are useful.
        Updated perl modules from EPEL

        perl-DBD-XBase-0.241-6.el5
        perl-MailTools-1.77-2.el5
        perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1
        perl-SQL-Statement-1.15-5.el5
        perl-TermReadKey-2.30-5.el5
        perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1
        perl-Text-Template-1.44-5.el5
        perl-Tk-804.028-3.el5

qemu

        Added due to requirements for kvm.
        This is for x86_64 only.

        qemu-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
        qemu-img-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm

R

        http://www.r-project.org/
        R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
        R is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment
        which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers and
        colleagues.
        R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some
        important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered
        under R.

        R-2.13.1-1.sl5
        R-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5
        libRmath-2.13.1-1.sl5
        libRmath-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5

Ralink wireless firmware

        The firmware provided in these packages are required to be
        present on your system in order for the respective Ralink? wireless
        drivers to be able to operate on your system.

        rt61pci-firmware-1.2-5.el5.noarch.rpm
        rt73usb-firmware-1.8-5.el5.noarch.rpm


scipy

        Scipy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and
        engineering. The core library is NumPy which provides convenient and
        fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to
        work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient
        numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and
        optimization.

        scipy-0.6.0-6.el5

suitesparse

        suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving
        sparse matrices.
        Part of scipy .

        suitesparse-3.1.0-1.el5
        suitesparse-devel-3.1.0-1.el5
        suitesparse-static-3.1.0-1.el5

SL_afs_no_dynroot-2.0-2.noarch.rpm

        This package removes the -dynroot option from the openafs config
        Restarting of afs is needed for this to take effect.
        This rpm does not restart afs

SL_desktop_tweaks-5-4.noarch.rpm

        This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for both KDE and GNOME.
        This also changed the KDE startup background from red to black
        Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME.

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.

SL_no_colorls-1.0-3.noarch.rpm

        Turns off "color" of ls.  Not installed by default.

SL_password_for_singleuser-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

        Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for
        single user mode.  Not installed by default.
        This used to be SL_inittab_change

SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-2.noarch.rpm

        Adds arch to "rpm -qa" listing.
        Now umask friendly

SL_sendmail_accept-1.1-3.noarch.rpm

        Changes Sendmail config so that it allows incomming mail.
        Not installed by default.

tidy
        When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if
        there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up
        sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave
        Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also
        works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by
        specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you
        identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages
        more accessible to people with disabilities.

        tidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5
        libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5
        libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5

XFS

        XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance journaling filesystem
        that provides rapid recovery from system crashes.

        Because the xfs driver is now in the kernel we are removing
          kernel-module-xfs, xfs, xfs-filesystem
        We are still providing the utilities needed to manage XFS
          xfsdump, xfsprogs, dmapi

        xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5
        xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5
        xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5
        dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5
        dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5

Yumex

        Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum.

        yumex-2.0.3-1.0.el5.noarch.rpm

yum-utils

        yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum
        package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that
        make yum easier and more powerful to use.  Some utilities are
        plugin's.

        yum-installonlyn has been incorporated into yum
        See comments in yum.conf on how to change settings for installonlyn

        yum-utils has been updated to the version provided by TUV

        TUV doesn't include all of the plugins the go along with
        the yum-utils version they provide.  We include all of
        the plugins.  This is the full list of the yum-utils packages
        and utilities provided by yum itself.

        yum-aliases
        yum-changelog
        yum-downloadonly
        yum-fastestmirror
        yum-filter-data
        yum-keys
        yum-kmod
        yum-list-data
        yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher
        yum-priorities
        yum-protectbase
        yum-protect-packages
        yum-security
        yum-tmprepo
        yum-updateonboot
        yum-utils
        yum-verify
        yum-versionlock
        yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
        yum-merge-conf-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
        yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
        yum-tsflags-1.1.16-14.sl5.1
        yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.16-14.sl5.1

MISC
        Added these rpms because they are important but upstream vendor did
        not include them.

        gv-3.6.2-2.sl5          from Stephan Wiesand
        Pine has been replaced by alpine

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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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Installer(anaconda)

*       anaconda-11.1.2.259-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
*       anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.259-1.SL.x86_64.rpm

        XFS Utilities are now in the rescue image

        x86_64 only: Can now boot off an xfs partition.
        Brent Bates provided the XFS anaconda patches.

        Removed code to verify that timezone is correct in kickstart
        as it had bugs

        Added kernel-module.py yum plugin during the install
        Modified pkgorder with patches from CentOS
        Modified installclasses/rhel.py to remove key request
        Modified installclasses/rhel.py to include SL groups
        sites support see sites/example

        Note: Installing sites on a virtual machine
        When installing a paravirtulized site, you have to point at the
        site directory, such as 5rolling/i386/sites/example

        When installing a fully virtulized site, you only have to point
        to the base directory, like you usually would, such as
        5rolling/x86_64/sites/example

comps.xml

        Updated some group names and descriptions to work better internationally

        In Update 1 The Upstream Vendor changed their comps.xml files to
        reflect a different sorting structure, as well as clean up extra
        files from their short term linux release.

        In Update 2 The Upstream Vendor added more packages to their comps.xml
        comps-sl.xml has been changed to incorporate most of The Upstream
        Vendors changes.  Since we have merged their various comps.xml
        files, our comps.xml will never really look like theirs.  But this
        change brings ours more in line with their Update 2 versions.

        In Update 4 The Upstream Vendor added packages, and changed their
        x86_64 comps.xml to be different than their i386 version.
        We have updated our comps.xml to reflect their changes in packages
        and groups.  We have also updated our comps.xml file to be friendly
        to more languages.

        In Update 5 The Upstream Vendor added the group "conflicts".  This group
        includes packages conflicting with @everything installation.
        This group was added, as were the other minor changes TUV did.

        There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release.  We have
        changed the "rpms" that are required to be changed.  These changes are
        defined by the "vendor".

logos, artwork & release

        redhat-logos was changed to add the "photographs" shown during
        the install

                redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.4.i386.rpm
                redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.4.x86_64.rpm
                redhat-logos-4.9.16-2.sl5.6.noarch.rpm

        sl-release changes the default mozilla and firefox bookmarks.
        sl-release changes the default rhn configuration to use yum and
          points this configuration to ftp.scientificlinux.org

        sl-release removed the firstboot additional cd's question

*               sl-release-5.9-0.sl.x86_64.rpm
*               sl-release-notes-5.9-0.noarch.rpm

These rpm's are not required to be changed by the vendor, but we felt
        they needed to be changed

        gdm
                Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue
        pirut
                Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"
        rhgb
                Changed the colors.

buildsys-macros

        A collection of macros for our build system

python-virtinst

        virtinst is a module to help in starting installations inside of
        virtual machines.  It supports both paravirt guests as well as
        fully virtualized guests.  It uses libvirt (http://www.libvirt.org)
        for starting things.  Also contained is a simple
        script virt-install which uses virtinst in a command line mode.

        python-virtinst would understand a plain Scientific Linux install,
        but it didn't understand sites.  We have added a patch to allow it
        to understand and install paravirtualized SL Sites.

*       python-virtinst-0.400.3-13.sl5.noarch.rpm

yum

        Yum version 2.4 and above has the kernel-module plugin that let's yum
        understand how kernel-module rpm's are related to kernels.  Because of
        this updates dealing with kernel-module rpm's (such as afs) now work

        yum-conf
        priorities have been set on the repositories.  But you have to have
        yum-priorities installed for them to take effect.
        metadata_expire variable was set to 20 hours to allow for normal users
        to be able to use yum for those commands they can run
        yum-conf has the following repositories in it
          sl-base (enabled)
          sl-security (enabled)
          sl-testing (not enabled)
          sl-fastbugs (not enabled)
          atrpms (not enabled)
          dag (not enabled)
        Not all repositories are enabled by default.
        To enable them for one time use, use the --enablerepo command, such as
          yum --enablerepo=atrpms list mplayer
          yum --enablerepo=dag install xine

        If you want the repositories to be enabled all the time then you need
        to edit the config files and change enabled=0 to enabled=1.
        The config files are in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and are
        named like
          /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
          /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

        NOTE1: Just because a yum repository exists does NOT mean
        it is compatible with all other yum repositories.  We have included
        the repositories we did because they usually work well together.
        But if there is a problem with one of the packages in a repository,
        please contact that repository maintainer.

        yum-autoupdate

        yum-autoupdate has the check for a running yum in it, so that if
        yum has been running for a long time (close to 24 hours), when the
        yum.cron starts up, it will kill the old yum.  This was changed
        because we had reports that yum was hanging and we didn't want
        this to interfere with updates.

        yum-autoupdate checks to see how long the machine is been up
        If it is up less than 20 hours, it doesn't wait, but does the update.
        If it is longer than 20 hours, it waits a random time, up to 3 hours.
        This uptime check was done to help laptops and other machines that
        might not be on long enough to wait for the random time.
        The random time was put it in so that servers arn't overwhelmed.

        yum-cron is the yum-cron from epel.  yum-cron has a different cron
        script than is provided in yum-autoupdate.

        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.

*       Starting with SL 5.9, yum-conf-5x is automatically installed.
*       Users wishing for the historical behavior can remove the package
*       with 'yum remove yum-conf-5x'

        yum-conf-epel has been added so that people could use the epel yum
        repository.  This rpm requires both yum-provides and yum-fastestmirror
*       yum-conf-elrepo has been added so that people can easily install the
*       elrepo repository.  This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .
*       yum-conf-adobe has been added so that people can easily install the
*       adobe repository.  This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror .


*               yum-conf-59-1.sl.rolling.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-5x-2-5rolling.noarch.rpm

                yum-3.2.22-39.sl.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-elrepo-5-1.noarch.rpm
*               yum-conf-adobe-5-1.i686.rpm
*               yum-conf-adobe-5-1.x86_64.rpm
                yum-conf-epel-5-1.noarch.rpm
                yum-cron-0.6-3.el5.noarch.rpm
*               yum-updatesd-0.9-5.sl.noarch.rpm
                yum-autoupdate-1.2-1.SL.noarch.rpm


Apache
        Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to
        have SL info.

*               httpd-2.2.3-74.sl5
*               httpd-devel-2.2.3-74.sl5
*               httpd-manual-2.2.3-74.sl5
*               mod_ssl-2.2.3-74.sl5

gdm
        Change config file to include the "Last" option
        Add theme "EaseOfBlue"
        Changed default theme to be EaseOfBlue
        Changed because of TradeMark of TUV.

                gdm-2.16.0-59.sl5
                gdm-docs-2.16.0-59.sl5


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We have removed these RHN tools as they cannot be used for SL
        rhel-instnum
        subscription-manager
        subscription-manager-firstboot
        subscription-manager-gnome

We have removed the cc-ael4 config files as SL has not been reviewed for
this certification
*       cc-eal4-config-rhel56

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CHANGED/ADDED/REMOVED by Upstream Vendor in version 5.9
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/SL/
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The location of the rpms.

The Upstream Vendor's release consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client. Each cd set has a group of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the Client cd this consists of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT,Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the same rpms
on each cd.  The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not
have any common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common
rpms along with many unique rpms.

Scientific Linux has combined all of the rpm's from Client, Server, VT, Cluster,
ClusterStorage, and Workstation into the SL directory.
You are not asked to enter any key, since you have access to all packages.

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 /contrib/
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RPMS provided by colaboraters that either cannot go in main release or are
intesting before going into main release.

See the SRPMS section for source rpms

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/updates/
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       security
                Security errata
       fastbugs
                Packages rebuilt from the Upstream Vendor "bugfix" rpms
                These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update
                They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor

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/../SRPMS/
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/SL/
        Contains the SRPMS for what we added or changed.  Put these in the
        top level directory as these are really the ones we changed.  All
        the others can be obtained from the upstream vendor ftp updates area
/vendor/
        The upstream vendors SRPMS.
        This directory contains both the original released SRPMS, as well as
        the updated SRPMS
/contrib/
        SRPMS for the contrib packages
/sites/<site>/SRPMS
        SRPMS for sites, if there is a site

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/../archive/
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/obsolete/
                Packages that used to be in the release but have been
                updated
/debuginfo/
                Debuginfo packages

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LIMITATIONS
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ipw2100, ipw2200, ipw3945
        Does not work in the installer

ftp install
        Currently, during an ftp install when it get's the the graphical
        section, there is a long pause (close to a minute) when it sits
        at a blank screen.  It is NOT frozen,  it is just searching for
        files that are not there.  Give it a couple minutes and it
        will continue.

NVIDIA motherboard chipsets
        May need to use
                linux noapic
        to install.

Intel 965 motherboard chipset
        May need to use
                linux all-generic-ide
        if you have pata hardware

Yum Update
        When upgrading to SL 5.x from a version earlier that 5.3, you need
        to update glibc first, and then update the rest of your system.

        # yum update glibc
        # yum update

        If you don't update glibc first, then you will continually get errors
        during your upgrade that say something similar to
         rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument

Graphical Desktop
        After doing a clean install, sometimes the monitor isn't configured
        properly and Xorg.conf does not contain all required information.
        Result is a garbled display when entering runlevel 5.
        Workaround: After the installation, reboot the system normally and
        run the firstboot utility.  Reboot the system into runlevel 3.
        Log in as root and run system-config-display and configure the
        display manually.

        Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted
        graphics or fonts when using the graphical installer or during a
        graphical login. To work around this, switch to a virtual console
        and back to the original X host to refresh X.

Intel Wireless
        Due to outstanding driver issues with hardware encryption
        acceleration, users of Intel WiFi Link 4965, 5100, 5150, 5300,
        and 5350 wireless cards are advised to disable hardware accelerated
        encryption using module parameters. Failure to do so may result in
        the inability to connect to Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
        protected wireless networks after connecting to WiFi Protected Access
        (WPA) protected wireless networks.
        To do so, add the following options to /etc/modprobe.conf:

          alias wlan0 iwlagn
          options iwlagn swcrypto50=1 swcrypto=1

        (where wlan0 is the default interface name of the first Intel
        WiFi Link device)

Removable Storage
        Removable storage devices (such as CDs and DVDs) do not automatically
        mount when you are logged in as root. As such, you will need to
        manually mount the device through the graphical file manager.
        Alternatively, you can run the following command to mount a device
        to /media:

        mount /dev/[device name] /media

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INFO
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Web Site

  https://www.scientificlinux.org

FTP

  http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/
  http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/
  ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/59/

Mailing Lists

  scientific-linux-de...@fnal.gov     Development of Scientific Linux
  scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov     Users of Scientific Linux supporting
                                      each other
scientific-linux-annou...@fnal.gov Announcements concerning Scientific Linux
  scientific-linux-err...@fnal.gov    Announcements about Security Errata
  scientific-linux-mirr...@fnal.gov   Announcements concerning mirroing

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ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS that were released after TUV Update 9
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*Security errata will not be placed in the default install tree as has been
*done with prior releases of Scientific Linux 5.  They will only
*reside in the updates/security/ directory.

You will have to do a "yum -y update" after the installation via DVD to
install all the security errata.


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-Scientific Linux Development Team

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