Scientific Linux 5.2 i386 Errata 10-18-37 - Minor NDISWrapper Fixes

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:18:37 -0500
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Scientific Linux 5.2 i386 is now officially released and available.
We want to thank everyone for their contributions, testing and feedba
ck. With all your effort we have been able to get this release out in a timely
 manner.

There are CD and DVD iso images available at

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

--SL 5.2 release notes --

Scientific Linux "SL 5.2" for i386 June 26, 2008

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Table of contents

 DOWNLOAD INFO
 ADDED compared to Enterprise 5.2
 UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5.2
 Installer/legal modifications
ADDED by Upstream Vendor
 /contrib
 SRPMS
 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
 LIMITATIONS
 INFO
 ERRATA
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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ADDED compared to vendor
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resolution-0.5.3-6.el5.i386.rpm
 
 resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and
 seriesIntel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and
 5G 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. resolution's 
 modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is no risk of 
 permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that
 resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for
 it's changes to take effect.

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

alpine

 Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic m
essages.
 Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing &
 Communications at the University of Washington.

* alpine-1.10-1.i386.rpm

cfitsio

 CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading an
d
 writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) dat
a format
 CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community.

cfitsio-3.030-1.sl5.i386.rpm
cfitsio-devel-3.030-1.sl5.i386.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

dropit
 dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries fr
om 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.i386.rpm

*FUSE
 
 With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesys
tem
 in a userspace program.
 fuse-smb: you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood a
s if
 it were on your own filesystem. Only when you're accessing a sha
re is
 a connection made to the remote computer. This also allows user
s 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.i386.rpm
fuse-devel-2.6.3-1.SL.i386.rpm
fuse-libs-2.6.3-1.SL.i386.rpm
*fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL.i386.rpm
*fuse-sshfs-2.0-1.SL.i386.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-2.6.3-1.sl5.i686.rpm

*Graphviz

Graph Visualization Tools
*Updated to latest release
*

* graphviz-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-devel-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-doc-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-graphs-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-guile-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-java-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-lua-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-ocaml-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-perl-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-php-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-python-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-ruby-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm
* graphviz-tcl-2.18-3.sl.i386.rpm

*icewm

 A lightweight window manager for the X Window System.
*Updated to the latest version
 
* icewm-1.2.35-1.i386.rpm
* icewm-l10n-1.2.35-1.i386.rpm

Intel wireless firmware

 Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 and 2200 Driver.
 Please read the license that comes in the rpm carefully.
 ipw2200-firmware-3.0 includes version 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and 3.0

 ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.noarch.rpm
 ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.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.i686.rpm
*ipw3945d-1.7.22-11.sl5.i386.rpm
 ipw3945-firmware-1.14.2-1.sl5.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.i686.rpm

 The file iwlwifi-4965.ucode is required to be
 present on your system in order for the Intel Wireless WiFi Lin
k
 4965AGN driver for Linux (iwlwifi) to be able to operate on you
r
 system.

 iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17-5.sl5.noarch.rpm

*JAVA

*java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.15-1jpp.noarch.rpm
*jdk-1.5.0_15-fcs.i586.rpm

 This packages is the java sdk from sun.
 It's license is found at SL.documentation/jdk-1.5.x.license
 To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly yo
u should
 also install java-1.5.0-sun-compat
 So the easiest thing to do is
 yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat
 as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.5.0 rpm.

 java-1.5.0-sun-compat-1.5.0.15-1jpp.noarch.rpm

 This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
 directories for Sun's JDK rpm.

*kdeedu
*
* Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE
* kstars is part of this package
*
* kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5.i386.rpm
* kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5.i386.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 Mi
niPCI -
 that use Atheros chipsets (ar5210, ar5211, ar5212).

*madwifi-0.9.4-15.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686.rp
m
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686
.rpm
* kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.9.4-15.sl5.i686
.rpm

Multimedia

gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl.i386.rpm from SL4 (updated ta
rball)
k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl.i386.rpmfrom livna Repository

 These are dependencies of the above rpms.

 lame-3.97-1.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
 lame-devel-3.97-1.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
taglib-1.4-1.2.sl.i386.rpmfrom RPMforge
taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl.i386.rpmfrom 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 c
ontain
 just the kernel module and loader. You will also need the Window
s driver
 for your card.

 WARNING: Scientific Linux-Kernels use 4K size stack. Many Windows
 drivers will need at least 8K size stacks. For details read the wiki on:
 http:/ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
*Updated to the latest version

*ndiswrapper-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.53-1.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.53-1.SL.i686.rp
m
* kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.53-1.SL.i686.rp
m

nedit
 NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System and Motif.

 nedit-5.5-10.el5.i386.rpm

NumPy

 /
 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-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm

*OpenAFS

* We have put in the latest 1.4.7 release of openafs

*openafs-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-authlibs-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-client-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-compat-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-debug-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-devel-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-kernel-source-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-kpasswd-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-krb5-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*openafs-server-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
*gfs-utils-0.1.12-1.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-1.4.7-68.SL5.i686.rpm

These perl modules have been added as they are useful. They came fro
m CERN

 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.i386.rpm
 perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1.i386.rpm
 perl-Text-Template-1.44-1.noarch.rpm
 perl-Tk-804.027-1.i386.rpm
 perl-TimeDate has been added to the release by The Upstream Vend
or
 We decided to use TUV's version of perl-TimeDate

*R

https://www.r-project.org/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and grap
hics.
R is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environm
ent
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.
*Latest version

*R-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*R-devel-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*libRmath-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*libRmath-devel-2.7.0-1.sl5.i386.rpm

*r1000
*
*The r1000 driver is now the r8169 driver, now in the SL 5.2 kerne
l.
*Because it is now in the kernel, we have removed the r1000 packag
es.

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 ni
ce 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 a
lso
 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.i386.rpm
 libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.i386.rpm
 libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5.i386.rpm

*XFS
*XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance journaling filesystem
*that provides rapid recovery from system crashes.
*
*xfs-0.4-1.el5.i686.rpm
*xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5.i386.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-0.4-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5PAE-0.4-1.sl5.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen-0.4-1.sl5.i686.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 yu
m
 package manager. It includes utilities by different authors th
at
 make yum easier and more powerful to use. Some utilities are
 plugin's.
*These plugin's have been updated to version 1.1.10, corresponding
*to the yum-utils version provided by TUV
*yum-installonlyn has been incorporated into yum
*See comments in yum.conf on how to change settings for installonl
yn

*yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-merge-conf-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-priorities-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-tsflags-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.10-10.el5.noarch.rpm

* The following have been replaced by a new version which is incl
uded
*by TUV
*yum-metadata-parser-1.0.4-1.sl5.i386.rpm
*yum-utils-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-changelog-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
* yum-fedorakmod-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-installonlyn-1.0.4-2.sl5.noarch.rpm
*yum-protectbase-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-skip-broken-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-updateonboot-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm
*yum-versionlock-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm

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

 gv-3.6.2-2.sl5.i386.rpmfrom Stephan Wiesand
*Pine has been replaced by alpine
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Changed RPMS compared to vendor
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Installer(anaconda)

* anaconda-11.1.2.113-3.SL.i386.rpm
* anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.113-3.SL.i386.rpm
*
* 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 internat
ionally
*
*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 comp
s.xml
*comps-sl.xml has been changed to incorporate most of
*TUV 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 define
d by the
"vendor".

redhat-artwork-5.0.9-1.SL.2.i386.rpm
redhat-logos-4.9.16-1.SL.6.noarch.rpm
* sl-release-5.2-1.i386.rpm
* sl-release-notes-5.2-1.noarch.rpm
 sl-release changes the default mozilla and firefox bookmarks.
 sl-release changes the default rhn configuration to use yum a
nd
 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.i386.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.i386.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 (https://libvirt.org/)
 for starting things. Also contained is a simple
 script virt-install which uses virtinst in a command line mode.
 
 It was only configured to know about TUV virtual machines. We a
dded
 a patch so that it knew about Scientific Linux, and thus be able
 to
 install SL paravirtual machines.

* python-virtinst-0.300.2-8.sl.noarch.rpm

yum

 Yum version 2.4 and above has the kernel-module plugin that le
t's yum
 understand how kernel-module rpm's are related to kernels. Be
cause of
 this updates dealing with kernel-module rpm's (such as afs) no
w work

 yum-conf
* priorities have been set on the repositories. But you have to h
ave
* yum-priorities installed for them to take effect.
 metadata_expire variable was set to 20 hours to allow for norm
al 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, s
uch as
 yum --enablerepo atrpms list mplayer
 yum --enablerepo dag install xine
 yum --enablerepo adobe install flash-player

 If you want the repositories to be enabled all the time then yo
u 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 inclu
ded
 the repositories we did because they usually work well together.
 But if
 there is a problem with one of the packages in a repository, ple
ase
 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 wa
nt 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 h
ours.
 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-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the l
atest
 stable release. It is always pointing at the 5x area. This me
ans
 that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgrad
ed to
 them.
* yum-conf-epel has been added so that people could use the epel y
um
* repository. This rpm requires both yum-provides and yum-fastest
mirror

*yum-3.2.8-10.sl.noarch.rpm
 yum-autoupdate-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-52-2.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-5x-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-epel-5-1.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-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* httpd-manual-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.rpm
* mod_ssl-2.2.3-11.sl5.3.1.i386.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-devel-0.4.1-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm
brltty-3.7.2-1.fc6.1.i386.rpm

---------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
/SL/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
The Upstream Vendor's release consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Clie
nt. 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, V
T, Cluster,
ClusterStorage, and Workstation into the SL directory.
You are not asked to enter any key, since you have access to all pack
ages.

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 /contrib/
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RPMS provided by colaboraters that either cannot go in main release o
r 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 Fastrack rpms
These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update
They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor
 bugfix51
Reserved for packages from the next Update.

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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 ar
ea
/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//SRPMS
SRPMS for sites, if there is a site

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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. This will be fixed before the final release.

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
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