contents scientificlinux repo

[Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)]

LS.

Unfortunately it seems that contents scientificlinux repo are not up-to-date.

When issuing command 

# yum update openssl

It searches for 
openssl-0.9.8e-31.el5_11.x86_64
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-31.el5_11.x86_64

And for some days, this was ok, but now, it seems only these versions are in 
repo

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/x86_64/updates/security/

File:openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.3.x86_64.rpm
File:openssl-0.9.8e-27.el5_10.4.x86_64.rpm

So, the update will fail, because 0.9.8e-31 versions are not available.

This looks to have changed suddenly, so some of my servers have 
auto-yum-updated ok, and others show a yum-error.

Carel van der Werf

Dell Latitude E6540

[Yasha Karant]

Is anyone running SL 7 on a Dell Latitude E6540?  My institution is 
considering this unit over the equivalent HP unit, to replace the five 
year old laptop that I currently use, because of the net lower cost of 
the Dell.  Dell claims that it will run Linux Ubuntu 12.04 -- but I do 
not know if this enthusiast Ubuntu has more secure boot, etc., 
capabilities than SL7x.


Any information, on or off list, greatly would be appreciated.

Yasha Karant