Scientific Linux "SL 5.3" for x86

Scientific Linux "SL 5.3" for x86_64 March 19, 2009

Items marked with a "*" indicate changes since 5.2

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
CHANGED by Upstream Vendor
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SRPMS
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
LIMITATIONS
INFO
ERRATA
RPMS that have not built yet
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/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 i
code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler.i
915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel.

915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5.x86_64.rpm

*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-2.00-2.el5.x86_64.rpm

*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.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-128.1.1.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) i
data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.

* cfitsio-3.100-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

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.x86_64.rpm

dkms

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

dkms-2.0.17.4-1.9.noarch.rpm

*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.x86_64.rpm
* fftw3-devel-3.1.2-5.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

FUSE

With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem
in a userspace program.
fuse-smb: you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as if
it were on your own filesystem. Only when you're accessing a share is
a connection made to the remote computer. This also allows users to
mount smb shares using kerberos.
fuse-sshfs: A FUSE-filesystem client based on the
SSH File Transfer Protocol. On the client side mounting the
filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.
Updated to latest fuse-smb and fuse-sshfs

fuse-2.6.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
fuse-devel-2.6.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
fuse-libs-2.6.3-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
fuse-sshfs-2.0-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm

Graphviz

Graph Visualization Tools

graphviz-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-devel-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-doc-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-graphs-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-guile-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-java-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-lua-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-ocaml-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-perl-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-php-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-python-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-ruby-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-tcl-2.18-3.sl.x86_64.rpm

*icewm

A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
* Added OpenOffice to the menu and toolbar
*
* icewm-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm
* icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.x86_64.rpm

*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.

ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.noarch.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.noarch.rpm
* iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* iwlwifi-4965-ucode-228.57.2.23-7.el5.noarch.rpm
* iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11-1.el5.noarch.rpm

ipw3945d is needed to control the ipw3945 wireless card
ipw3945d is now turned on by default. The startup script
looks for the ipw3945 hardware, and if it finds it
it starts up the ipw3945 deamon.
kernel-module-ipw3945 is needed because this driver is not in
the standard kernel.

This driver is known to work on the Dell 820 and Dell 620.
It is known to NOT work on the FJS S7110 (Fujitsu).

ipw3945-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
ipw3945d-1.7.22-11.sl5.x86_64.rpm
ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.sl5.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm

*JAVA

* java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.12-1.sl5.jpp.i586.rpm
* java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.12-1.sl5.jpp.x86_64.rpm
* jdk-1.6.0_12-fcs.i586.rpm
* jdk-1.6.0_12-fcs.x86_64.rpm

jdk packages is the java sdk from sun.
It's license is found at SL.documentation/jdk-1.6.x.license
java-1.6.0-sun-compat provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
directories for Sun's JDK rpm.
To have all of Sun's java links (including plugins) setup correctly
you should install java-1.6.0-sun-compat which will pull in the jdk rpm
So the easiest thing to do is
yum install java-1.6.0-sun-compat
as it will automatically pull in the current jdk-1.6.0 rpm.

kdeedu

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

kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

madwifi

Support for Atheros G wireless
madfifi is the Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi, a linux device driver
for 802.11a/b/g universal NIC cards - either Cardbus, PCI or MiniPCI -
that use Atheros chipsets (ar5210, ar5211, ar5212).

madwifi-0.9.4-15.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.x86_64.rpm

Multimedia

gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl.x86_64.rpm from SL4
k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from livna Repository

These are dependencies of the above rpms.

lame-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
lame-devel-3.97-1.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
taglib-1.4-1.2.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge
taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl.x86_64.rpm from RPMforge

ndiswrapper

The ndiswrapper project makes it possible to use WLAN-Hardware
with Linux by means of a loadable kernel module that "wraps
around" NDIS (Windows network driver API) drivers. These rpms contain
just the kernel module and loader. You will also need the Windows driver
for your card.
Updated to the latest version

ndiswrapper-1.53-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-1.53-1.SL.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-1.53-1.SL.x86_64.rpm

*nedit
* NEdit is now provided by the upstream vendor.

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.x86_64.rpm

OpenAFS

We have put in the latest 1.4.7 release of openafs

* openafs-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-authlibs-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-client-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-compat-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-debug-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-devel-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-kernel-source-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-kpasswd-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-krb5-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* openafs-server-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-1.4.7-68.1.SL5.x86_64.rpm

These perl modules have been added as they are useful. They came from SL4

perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm
perl-SQL-Statement-1.06-1.noarch.rpm
perl-TermReadKey-2.20-12.x86_64.rpm
perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.x86_64.rpm
perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Tk-804.027-1.x86_64.rpm
perl-TimeDate has been added to the release by The Upstream Vendor
We decided to use TUV's version of perl-TimeDate

*R

http://www.r-project.org/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
It 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-2.8.1-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* R-devel-2.8.1-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* libRmath-2.8.1-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* libRmath-devel-2.8.1-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm

r1000

The r1000 driver is now the r8169 driver, now in the SL 5.2 kernel.
Because it is now in the kernel, we have removed the r1000 packages.

*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.x86_64.rpm

*suitesparse
*
* suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving
* sparse matrices.
* Part of scipy .
*
* suitesparse-3.1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* suitesparse-devel-3.1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* suitesparse-static-3.1.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

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.x86_64.rpm
libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.x86_64.rpm
libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.x86_64.rpm

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

* xfs-filesystem-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm

Yumex

Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum.
Updated to the latest stable version

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 version 1.1.16, corresponding
* to the yum-utils 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
*
* yum-aliases-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-changelog-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-downloadonly-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-filter-data-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-keys-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-kmod-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-list-data-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-merge-conf-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-priorities-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-protectbase-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-protect-packages-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-security-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-tmprepo-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-tsflags-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-updateonboot-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-utils-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-verify-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-versionlock-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch.rpm

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

gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm from Stephan Wiesand
Pine has been replaced by alpine

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*Installer(anaconda)

* anaconda-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm
* anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.168-2.SL.x86_64.rpm

* 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.

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".

redhat-artwork-5.0.9-1.SL.2.x86_64.rpm
redhat-artwork-5.0.9-1.SL.2.i386.rpm
redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.6.noarch.rpm
* sl-release-5.3-1.x86_64.rpm
* sl-release-notes-5.3-1.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
redhat-logos was changed to add the "photographs" shown during
the install

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

gdm-2.16.0-46.sl5.x86_64.rpm
Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue
pirut-1.3.28-13.sl.noarch.rpm
Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome"
rhgb-0.16.4-8.sl.1.x86_64.rpm
Changed the colors.

*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)i
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-0.300.2-12.sl.1.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)
sl-bugfix-51 (not enabled)
atrpms (not enabled)
dag (not enabled)
flash (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
yum --enablerepo=flash install flash-player

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.
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-3.2.19-18.sl.noarch.rpm
yum-autoupdate-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-53-1.SL.noarch.rpm
yum-conf-5x-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
yum-conf-epel-5-1.noarch.rpm
* yum-cron-0.6-3.el5.noarch.rpm
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.el5_2.6.noarch.rpm
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.sl.noarch.rpm

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

* httpd-2.2.3-22.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.i386.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.sl5.x86_64.rpm
* mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.sl5.x86_64.rpm

Changed in order to be built

Some rpm's had to be changed in order for us to build them.

The following rpm's had to have a variable changed so that they
point to the current include file

brlapi-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
brlapi-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.x86_64.rpm
brlapi-devel-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
brlapi-devel-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.x86_64.rpm
brltty-3.7.2-1.fc6.1.x86_64.rpm

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHANGED by Upstream Vendor in version 5.3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*cachefilesd
*
* Removed by Vendor

*compat-dapl-1.2.5
*
* Renamed to be just compat-dapl

*firstboot
*
* Is now arch dependant. It used to be a noarch rpm.

*frysk
*
* Removed by Vendor

*kmod-gfs2
*
* Drivers moved into main kernel. Rpm's now removed.

*netconfig
*
* Removed by Vendor

*openib
*
* Is now a noarch rpm. It used to be arch dependant.
* The sdpnetstat rpm has been removed because of the openib update

*pump-devel
*
* Removed by Vendor

*sysreport
*
* Removed by Vendor

*comps.xml
*
* There were several changes to the comps.xml of the Upstream Vendor.
* These changes reflect addition and removal of various packages.
* These changes have been migrated into the SL comps.xml
*
* Group: Cluster Storage
* Removed: kmod-gfs2
* Added Default: cmirror, kmod-cmirror
*
* Group: Development Libraries
* Removed: tog-pegasus-devel
* Added Optional: fipscheck-devel, libspe2-devel, libstdc++43-devel, perl-Archive-Zip
*
* Group: Development Tools
* Removed: frysk, frysk-gnome
* Added Optional: gcc43, gcc43-c++, gcc43-gfortran, java-1.6.0-openjdk, java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel, libgfortran43, libspe2
*
* Group: Network Servers
* Added Optional: openldap-servers-overlays
*
* Group: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
* Added Default: compat-dapl, compat-dapl-devel, compat-dapl-utils, dapl-devel, mpitests-openmpi
* Added Optional: compat-dapl-static, dapl-static, mpitests-mvapich, mpitests-mvapich2, mvapich, mvapich2
*
* Group: Base
* Removed: sysreport, netconfig
* Added Optional: fipscheck, cpufreq-utils, crash-spu-commands, fipscheck, nfs4-acl-tools
*
* Group: Core
* CHANGED from Default to Optional: ecryptfs-utils
* Added Optional: sgpio
*
* Group: Legacy Software Development
* Added Default: compat-libcom_err
*
* Group: Miscellaneous Included Packages
* Removed: cachefilesd
*
* Group: Printing Support
* Added Optional: wacomexpresskeys
*
* Group: System Tools
* Added Optional: e4fsprogs, elfspe2
*
* Group: Virtualization
* Added Optional: libcmpiutil, libvirt-cim

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/SL/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The location of the rpms.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/contrib/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/updates/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
security
Security errata
fastbugs
Packages rebuilt from the Upstream Vendor Fastrack rpms
These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update
They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor
bugfix52
Reserved for packages from the next Update.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/../SRPMS/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

/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/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/obsolete/x86_64/
Packages that used to be in the release but have been
updated
/debuginfo/x86_64/
Debuginfo packages

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LIMITATIONS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 5.3 from an earlier version of SL 5, 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.

* If your system uses an Intel 945GM graphics card, do not use the i810 driver.
* You should use the default intel driver instead.

*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
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Web Site

https://www.scientificlinux.org

FTP

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/

Mailing Lists

[email protected] Development of Scientific Linux
[email protected] Users of Scientific Linux supporting
each other
[email protected] Announcements concerning Scientific Linux
[email protected] Announcements about errata

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* avahi-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-compat-howl-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-compat-howl-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-compat-libdns_sd-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-glib-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-glib-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-qt3-devel-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* avahi-tools-0.6.16-1.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
* crash-4.0-7.2.3.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* crash-devel-4.0-7.2.3.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* lcms-1.15-1.2.2.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
* lcms-devel-1.15-1.2.2.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
* python-lcms-1.15-1.2.2.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
* squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5_2.3.noarch.rpm
* strace-4.5.18-2.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
* thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
* ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm
* firefox-3.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* nss-3.12.2.0-4.el5.i386.rpm
* nss-3.12.2.0-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
* nss-devel-3.12.2.0-4.el5.i386.rpm
* nss-devel-3.12.2.0-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
* nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-4.el5.i386.rpm
* nss-pkcs11-devel-3.12.2.0-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
* nss-tools-3.12.2.0-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-1.9.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-1.9.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.6-1.el5.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.6-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
* gstreamer-plugins-good-devel-0.10.9-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* sudo-1.6.9p17-3.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.noarch.rpm
* kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-3.2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
* netpbm-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
* netpbm-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* netpbm-devel-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
* netpbm-devel-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* netpbm-progs-10.35-6.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* vnc-4.1.2-14.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* dos2unix-3.1-27.2.el5.x86_64.rpm
* hwbrowser-0.30-3.el5.noarch.rpm
* system-config-date-1.8.12-4.el5.noarch.rpm
* unix2dos-2.2-26.2.3.el5.x86_64.rpm
* strace-4.5.18-2.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
* device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-23.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* gfs2-utils-0.1.53-1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* kpartx-0.4.7-23.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
* firefox-3.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
* libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
* libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
* libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
* wireshark-1.0.6-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
* wireshark-gnome-1.0.6-2.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.7-1.el5.i386.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
* xulrunner-devel-unstable-1.9.0.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpmi
* htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
* htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm
* mod_authz_ldap-0.26-9.el5.x86_64.rpm
* icu-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
* libicu-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
* libicu-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
* libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.i386.rpm
* libicu-devel-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
* libicu-doc-3.6-5.11.2.x86_64.rpm
* cpio-2.6-23.el5.x86_64.rpm
* evolution-data-server-1.12.3-10.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
* evolution-data-server-1.12.3-10.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
* evolution-data-server-devel-1.12.3-10.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
* evolution-data-server-devel-1.12.3-10.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
* evolution-data-server-doc-1.12.3-10.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
* jadetex-3.12-15.el5.noarch.rpm
* libsoup-2.2.98-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
* libsoup-2.2.98-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* libsoup-devel-2.2.98-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
* libsoup-devel-2.2.98-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
* ltrace-0.5-13.45svn.el5.x86_64.rpm