Scientific Linux 309 on i386 is now available. This will be the last of
the 30x series.
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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Scientific Linux 309 on i386 October 12 , 2007
This is a Scientific Linux .
Please read this entire document before installing.
This is based on the rebuilding of RPMS out of SRPMS's from Enterprise 3 AS
*including Update 9
Please send bug reports and suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changes compared to Scientific Linux 3.0.8 are indicated by a "*".
Items indicated by a "?" need to be verified.
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Table of contents
DOWNLOAD INFO
ADDED compared to Enterprise 3
UPDATED compared to Enterprise 3
Installer modifications
Site Info
/contrib
/notsupported
SRPMS
MISC Notes
HARDWARE SPECIFIC ISSUES
SOFTWARE ISSUES/BUGS
INFO
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
ERRATA
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DOWNLOAD INFO
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ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/309/
anon rsync access available .
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apt-get
Scientific Linux is aptable. Both Yum and apt are installed by
default. With yum handling the "auto update" function.
apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.SL.i386.rpm
apt-devel-0.5.15cnc6-4.SL.i386.rpm
apt-firstboot-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
synaptic-0.52-1.i386.rpm
apt-autoupdate-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
apt-autoupdate provides "auto update" functionality that
can be enabled via chkconfig or the "firstboot" questions.
apt-scripts-1-5.SL.noarch.rpm
apt-scripts provides useful lua scripts.
* apt-sourceslist-309-1.SL.i386.rpm
apt-sourceslist points to ftp.scientificlinux.org
Cluster Suite
* clumanager-1.2.35.2-1.i386.rpm
ipvsadm-1.21-9.ipvs108.i386.rpm
* piranha-0.7.11-1.1.i386.rpm
* redhat-config-cluster-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm
Developer Suite
eclipse-2.1.2-8.i386.rpm
eclipse-lomboz-2.1.2-8.i386.rpm
eclipse-rhaps-develserver-2.1.2-8.i386.rpm
Firefox and Thunderbird
* These have been removed from the release
* firefox
* thunderbird
GFS
* GFS-6.0.2.36-5.i686.rpm
* GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-5.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-5.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-hugemem-6.0.2.36-5.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.36-5.i686.rpm
IceWM
A small and fast window manager. Good for slower systems or
systems with not much memory. It is put it in the graphical login's
session list if installed.
icewm-1.2.20-2.i386.rpm
icewm-l10n-1.2.20-2.i386.rpm
java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.08-2jpp.i586.rpm
This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
directories for Sun's JDK rpm.
j2sdk-1.4.2_08-fcs.i586.rpm
This packages is the java sdk from sun.
It's license is found at misc/licenses/j2sdk-1.4.2-x.license
To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you should
also install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
So the easiest thing to do is
yum install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
as it will automatically pull in j2sdk-1.4.2_08-fcs.i586.rpm
Added RedHat Application Server to ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org
See README at ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/RHAPS/
These are straight from RedHat with the exception of the
java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.07-1jpp.noarch.rpm .
A yum.conf.rhaps has been added to the yum-conf rpm that points
to this area.
Korn shell from ATT
ksh93-2000.10.31.0-1.i386.rpm
mpg321, xmms-mp3, libmad, libid3tag
Because of licensing reasons RedHat did not include MP3 support
in their distribution. While this does not fill all cases, this
does allow some of the more popular music players to use mp3's.
libmad and libid3tag were added for dependancy reasons.
mpg321-0.2.10-4fr.i386.rpm
xmms-mp3-1.2.7-1.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.1b-1.fr.i386.rpm
libmad-devel-0.15.1b-1.fr.i386.rpm
libid3tag-0.15.1b-1.fr.i386.rpm
libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-1.fr.i386.rpm
MISC
Added these rpms because they are important as RedHat removed them.
gv-3.5.8-23.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
ncurses4-5.0-12.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
readline41-4.1-17.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
xcdroast-0.98a14-2.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
jpilot-0.99.6-1.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
sndconfig-0.70-2.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 1
cdda2wav-2.0-11.i386.rpm dependency of xcdroast
These rpms have been added as they are useful. They came from CERN.
perl-BSD-Resource-1.24-1.i386.rpm
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.16-12.i386.rpm
perl-MailTools-1.62-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.03-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Pod-Simple-2.05-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Proc-ProcessTable-0.39-1.i386.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-TimeDate-2.22-1.noarch.rpm
perl-Tk-804.027-1.i386.rpm
perl-Tk-HistEntry-0.42-1.noarch.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 1
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.91-3.i386.rpm
jaf-20030319-1.i386.rpm
javamail-20031006-1.i386.rpm
junit-3.8.1-1.i386.rpm
mtx-1.2.18-1.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-pl-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-server-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
rh-postgresql-test-7.3.4-8.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 2
net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.3.i386.rpm
imap-utils-2002d-8.i386.rpm
java-javadoc-1.5.33-1jpp_4rh.noarch.rpm
jpackage-utils-1.5.33-1jpp_4rh.noarch.rpm
laus-0.1-56RHEL3.i386.rpm
laus-devel-0.1-56RHEL3.i386.rpm
laus-libs-0.1-56RHEL3.i386.rpm
pam_passwdqc-0.7.5-1.i386.rpm
php-devel-4.3.2-11.ent.i386.rpm
rhgb-0.11.2-4.i386.rpm
sg3_utils-1.06-2.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 3
anacron-2.3-25.1.i386.rpm
amtu-0.1-6RHEL.i386.rpm
authd-1.4.1-1.rhel3.i386.rpm
diskdumputils-0.4.0-1.i386.rpm
eal3-certification-0.7-1.noarch.rpm
eal3-certification-doc-0.7-1.noarch.rpm
evolution-connector-1.4.7-5.i386.rpm
nasm-0.98.35-3.i386.rpm
nss_db-2.2-20.4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-style-gnome-1.1.0-16.9.EL.i386.rpm
rpm-libs-4.2.3-10.i386.rpm
up2date-update-4.2.38-1.i386.rpm
bind-libs-9.2.4-EL3_10.i386.rpm
bootparamd-0.17-17.i386.rpm
gtkglarea-1.2.2-16.i386.rpm
joe-2.9.8-5.i386.rpm
lynx-2.8.5-11.i386.rpm
perl-PDL-2.3.4-4.i386.rpm
skkdic-20030211-1.noarch.rpm
libglade-0.17-12.1.i386.rpm
libglade-devel-0.17-12.1.i386.rpm
gsl-1.1.1-5.i386.rpm
gsl-devel-1.1.1-5.i386.rpm
Gtk-Perl-0.7008-31.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 4
aspell-config-0.33.7.1-25.1.i386.rpm
iscsi-initiator-utils-3.6.2-4.i386.rpm
linuxwacom-0.6.4-7.i386.rpm
linuxwacom-devel-0.6.4-7.i386.rpm
mailman-2.1.5-23.i386.rpm
mikmod-devel-3.1.6-21.2.i386.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.12.i386.rpm
perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-4.i386.rpm
vim-X11-6.3.029-1.30E.3.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 5
jfbterm-0.4.7-1.EL3.1.i386.rpm
cscope-15.5-9.RHEL3.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 6
OpenIPMI-1.4.14-1.3E.9.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-devel-1.4.14-1.3E.9.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-libs-1.4.14-1.3E.9.i386.rpm
OpenIPMI-tools-1.4.14-1.3E.9.i386.rpm
emacs-nox-21.3-4.7.i386.rpm
The vendor added the following rpms as part of Update 6
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-3.el3.noarch.rpm
openafs
rpm spec file by Stephan Wiesand
x86_64 aklog fix - Enrico M.V. Fasanelli put in Chris Wing's patch
These are not installed by default, but they can be selected in the
installer.
openafs-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-client-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-compat-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-debug-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-devel-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-kernel-source-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-kpasswd-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-krb5-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-server-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i386.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-52.EL-1.2.13-15.17.SL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-52.EL-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-52.ELsmp-1.2.13-15.17.SL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-52.ELsmp-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i686.rpm
removed LSB init info from init script because the
"fixed" chkconfig from Update 5 gets it all wrong
The openafs-firstboot rpm enables "firstboot" to ask about
what AFS cell you want and if you want afs started at boot.
openafs-firstboot-1.2.11-5.SL.noarch.rpm
pine
RedHat removed because of license issues .
Changes pine.conf to reside in /etc/pine.conf vs /usr/local/
pine-4.58-3.SL.i386.rpm
rhgb
Remove "Red Hat" from rpm.
rhgb-0.11.2-5.SL.i386.rpm
SL_afs_no_dynroot-1.0-1.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_tweeks-1.1-1.i386.rpm
This adds a terminal and mozilla icon to the kicker panel for
both KDE and GNOME. Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME.
SL_enable_serialconsole
Renamed from serialconsole so as to use the new naming convention.
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.
Bug with the default serial number and dealing with a /boot
partition were fixed in version 3.1.
SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-3.noarch.rpm
SL_firefox_parentlock_fix-1.0-10.noarch.rpm
When a users home area is in AFS space, it is possible for
firefox, thunderbird, and/or seamonkey to leave a lock file called
.parentlock when they are closed. The user is then not able to
restart firefox, thunderbird, and/or seamonkey until that lock filei
is removed. This puts in a startup script that removes the .parentlock
lock file.
SL_inittab_change-1.0-4.i386.rpm
Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for
single user mode. Not installed by default.
SL_libg2c.a_change-3.2.3-1.i386.rpm
Creates a missing symbolic link in the gcc-g77 package from
/usr/lib/libg2c.a
to /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/libg2c.a
Installed with gcc-g77.
SL_no_colorls-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Turns off "color" of ls. Not installed by default.
SL_sendmail_accept-1.0-2.i386.rpm
Changes Sendmail config so that it allows incomming mail.
Not installed by default.
SL_startkde_afs-1.0-1.i386.rpm
By default startkde checks to make sure that a users home area has
at least 25K of disk space. A bug in the openafs kernel module for
the enterprise kernel causes single cpu machines to only list 1 K of
space. This changes the check to only need 1 K of space. The check
to make sure kde can actually write to the users home area is still
intact.
SL_startgnome_afs-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
Enables gnome to work better in a afs envirnonment.
It closes processes left open by gnome after the user has logged out
since these processes will not be able to touch the users home
directory anymore.
It creates lock files in a local temporary directory. This can
allow multiple versions of gnome to run, but it prevents AFS corruption.
SL_thunderbird_url_handlers-1-1.noarch.rpm
Set the URL settings in thunderbird to point to firefox
SL_tweek_pagecache-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
For the RedHat kernel 2.4.21-9.EL and above, many people feel that
the kernel isn't very responsive on desktops. This tweek changes
the pagecache settings. This has been shown to make the kernel
seem much more responsive in a desktop enviroment. Values
changed to "1 5 10" for /proc/sys/vm/pagecache .
This parameter has three values :
Minimum percent of memory used for page cache. Default is 1%.
The initial amount of memory for cache. Default is 15%.
Maximum percent of memory used for page cache. Default is 100%
Yum
yum-2.0.7-12.SL.noarch.rpm
yum-2.0.7-12 fixed the problem with yum not working with the
inbuilt ftp server in the bluearc .
yum-2.0.7-8 added support for ia32e.
yum-2.0.7-9 fixed kernel-module hangups, as well as installs
kernel-modules for multiple kernels
yum-2.0.7-7 contains a patch that allows yum to be able to
handle kernel-module-<product> rpm's.
yum 2.0.7 contains minor bug fixes along with the feature
of yum [action] package.somearch support added for
erase/remove, install, update and upgrade
* yum-conf-309-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum-conf-3x-1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
* yum.cron now uses /etc/yum.conf for a template for it's configuration
* file. If /etc/yum.conf has an excludes line, it will append the
* excludes in /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes. If /etc/yum.conf does
* not have an excludes line, it will add the one from
* /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes
* yum-conf-3x was created for those users who want to be at the latest
* stable release. It is always pointing at the 3x area.
yum.cron now 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. This uptime check was done to help laptops and other
machines that might not be on long enough to wait for the
random time.
There is a fastbug repo area to correspond to the vendors fasttrack
This is not on by default.
Made it easier for users to change where their repository is.
For yum.cron you now only have to change the files
/etc/yum.d/yum.cron.primary and/or yum.cron.secondary
You can add multiple repository in either file, or leave either blank.
The servers in primary will be used in the order they are in the
file. The servers in secondary will be used randomly. So if you
are concerned about overloading your one server, leave the primary
blank, and list all your servers in secondary, where they will
be used randomly
The vendor decided to include the following rpms. We had included them
in /notsupported/RPMS before. Since there were not many rpms left we moved
all of /notsupported/RPMS/
alchemist-devel-1.0.27-1.i386.rpm
db4-java-4.1.25-8.i386.rpm
amanda-devel-2.4.4p1-0.3E.i386.rpm
beecrypt-devel-3.0.1-0.20030630.i386.rpm
bind-chroot-9.2.4-EL3_10.i386.rpm
bind-devel-9.2.4-EL3_10.i386.rpm
bogl-devel-0.1.9-27.i386.rpm
busybox-0.60.5-8.i386.rpm
Canna-devel-3.6-20.i386.rpm
cdparanoia-devel-alpha9.8-15.i386.rpm
cdrecord-devel-2.01.0.a32-0.EL3.1.i386.rpm
evolution-devel-1.4.5-1.i386.rpm
expect-devel-5.38.0-92.2.i386.rpm
finger-server-0.17-18.i386.rpm
gimp-devel-1.2.3-20.1.i386.rpm
gimp-perl-1.2.3-20.1.i386.rpm
gimp-print-devel-4.2.4-5.i386.rpm
Glide3-devel-20010520-25.i386.rpm
gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.10-1.i386.rpm
gnome-python2-applet-1.99.14-5.i386.rpm
gphoto2-devel-2.1.0-7.i386.rpm
FreeWnn-devel-1.11-36.3.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.8.i386.rpm
gtkhtml3-devel-3.0.9-7.i386.rpm
guile-devel-1.6.4-8.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-5.5.6-5.1.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-devel-5.5.6-5.1.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-devel-5.5.6-5.1.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-perl-5.5.6-5.1.i386.rpm
imap-devel-2002d-9.i386.rpm
kdegames-devel-3.1.3-3.2.i386.rpm
kdemultimedia-devel-3.1.3-3.1.i386.rpm
libgal2-devel-1.99.10-1.i386.rpm
libgsf-devel-1.6.0-4.i386.rpm
libgtop2-devel-2.0.2-3.i386.rpm
libmrproject-devel-0.9-5.i386.rpm
libpng10-devel-1.0.13-15.i386.rpm
libsoup-devel-1.99.26-1.i386.rpm
libtabe-devel-0.2.6-5.1.i386.rpm
libwnck-devel-2.2.1-3.i386.rpm
libwvstreams-devel-3.70-10.i386.rpm
libxml-devel-1.8.17-9.1.i386.rpm
mod_perl-devel-1.99_09-10.ent.i386.rpm
openh323-devel-1.11.2-4.1E.i386.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.7a-33.12.i386.rpm
parted-devel-1.6.3-29.3.i386.rpm
perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.7.i386.rpm
pump-devel-0.8.19-1.i386.rpm
pwlib-devel-1.4.7-7.EL.i386.rpm
pyorbit-devel-1.99.3-5.i386.rpm
python-tools-2.2.3-5.i386.rpm
qt-ODBC-3.1.2-13.4.i386.rpm
samba-swat-3.0.6-2.3E.i386.rpm
sendmail-devel-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1.i386.rpm
sox-devel-12.17.4-4.3.i386.rpm
tcl-devel-8.3.5-92.2.i386.rpm
VFlib2-devel-2.25.6-17.i386.rpm
w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-5.i386.rpm
Xaw3d-devel-1.5-18.i386.rpm
XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-68.EL.i386.rpm
xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm
Documentation
Documentation in /sites/example/build/documentation on how to
make new "sites" including scripts to create site iso images.
rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rhel-isa-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rhel-rg-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rhel-sag-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rhel-sg-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rhel-devtools-en-3-3.noarch.rpm
rh-cs-en-3-2.noarch.rpm
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KERNEL
Note the "unsupported" kernel rpms. These contain modules that
are not in the "default kernel rpms". These are now installed by
default.
RedHat EULA required changes
RedHat requires that the following rpms be changed as part of
their EULA (End User License Agreement)
anaconda-images
redhat-artwork
redhat-logos
anaconda-help
indexhtml
sl-release and redhat-lsb were changed to make S.L. lsb compliant
sl-release now includes the SL.releasenote
* sl-release now has the default bookmarks for seamonkey
* sl-release-3.0.9-7.9.noarch.rpm
* redhat-lsb-1.3-3.1.SL.309.i386.rpm
findutils-4.1.7-9.1.SL.i386.rpm
Issues with rebuilding with afs.
*Http/apache
*
* Changed default html page to not have RedHat info.
*
* httpd-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
* mod_ssl-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
NEDIT
Nedit was found to have a bug preventing it from opening files.
Rebuilding from source did not clear up the problem. It also
showed a comment that STRONGLY suggested just getting the binaries
from nedit.org. We followed this advice, and we packaged the
binaries from nedit.org, into an rpm
nedit-5.4-1.i386.rpm
Fixes to misc RPMS
firstboot-1.1.33-1SL.noarch.rpm
Removed the additional_cds.py module
Added "Requires" of coreutils so that it will install during the install
gstreamer-0.6.0-5f1.i386.rpm
gstreamer-tools-0.6.0-5f1.i386.rpm
fixed by
gstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-18.i386.rpm
gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.6.0-18.i386.rpm
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Installer modifications
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Anaconda (installer)
* anaconda-9.1.6.20-4.SL.i386.rpm
* anaconda-runtime-9.1.6.20-4.SL.i386.rpm
Excluded the following RPMS from the "Everything" install
GFS was excluded as it needs configuration to not complain
ksh93 is excluded because it has some of the same files as pdksh
up2date* is excluded as it causes firstboot to not work
rhn-applet has a dependency on up2date
*openafs* because it needs configuration and it has kernel modules
Install kernel*-unsupported by default. It does not conflict with
other kernel rpms as it installs into into it's own directory
Note that it just contains kernel-modules.
Fixed a bug that RedHat introduced in loader2/method.c which broke
specifying the install method on the command line.
Added code to support "site" customizations which include
Custom installer kernel(needs nptl)
Custom installer(anaconda) including graphics
Added RPMS
ability to select packages to install by default via "comps.xml"
Modified/replaced RPMS (ability to upgrade or downgrade version)
see /sites
Made a "Packages added to SL" group so that you could select
any of these added RPMS during the install
anaconda-help-9.1-3.SL.noarch.rpm
Changed to reflect SL vs redhat.
Included "generic" installer graphics
RedHat requires us as part of their "EULA" that we replace
the images in "anaconda-images" with our own.
anaconda-images
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Site Info
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/sites/example/
README Now just says to read docs in /sites/example/documentation
build/documentation/
README Describes files and directories in /sites/example/
README.steps Step by step of what is needed to make a new site
README.images Info on how to change the graphics used during the install
/sites/example/build/scripts/
transform.sh Script that does all the steps of
README.steps except the original copying
of the example tree over to the new site
make.site.from.release.sh Script that will take a Enterprise 3 tree
and make a site out of it. Tested with
cel3(CERN) and Fermi Linux . Called by
make.new.site.sh
make.new.site.sh Script that will take either a Enterprise 3 tree
or the example site and make a site out of it.
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/contrib/
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The packges in this section have been contributed by various people. They
are presented AS IS and there is no guarantee of them working. These packages
are NOT supported by us. They will only get security updates if the
contributor provides them. If you have questions about them then ask the
contributor.
There are some rules to follow to be able to contribute to this area. These
rules might adjust some.
1- Contract Troy Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the rpm's that you wish to
contribute. If Troy doesn't personally know you, be prepared with some some
way to show him that you can be trusted. He is a nice guy but
he also is very concerned that this contrib section doesn't get abused.
2- The contributed rpm's must be able to go into a standard Scientific
Linux 3.0.x release without any extra outside rpms. If extra rpm's are
required, they must be supplied. All extra rpm's supplied must meet the
same criteria as the main rpm's.
3- For each rpm, the source rpm (src.rpm) must be provided.
4- For each source rpm, you must provide where you got it.
5- Both rpm's and srpm's must be digitally signed.
6- Rpms must be freely distributable.
We understand this sounds like alot of work, but once you do it once, it
becomes much easier.
RPMS
See ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/xxx/xxx/contrib
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/notsupported/RPMS/
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These are now included in the main tree.
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/../SRPMS/
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/
Contains the SRPMS for what we added or changed.
/vendor/
/errata
SRPMS from vendor for errata.
/original
SRPMS from vendor for originally released Enterpise 3 .
sites/<sites>/SRPMS
SRPMS for site
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MISC NOTES
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Upgrades from prior versions.
UPDATES are NOT supported for all versions of SL . This is NOT
something that we changed. Future releases may support upgrading
from SL 3.0.1 to future version of SL 3.0.x.
UPDATES will NOT work from anything except RedHat AS 2.1.
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HARDWARE SPECIFIC ISSUES
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ATI 9600/9700/9800 Video card
The version of X included here does NOT support these video cards very
well. If you have one of these cards then you should do a text install
and at the "X" screen select "vesa". This should be enough to get
installed. You can either stay with the "vesa" driver or download and
install the "X" driver from www.ati.com . See
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html
See http://bugzilla.redhat.com bug id 111948
Ethernet devices based on
"Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yakou Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T
Adapter" do not work out of the box. A driver is available from
http://www.marvell.com
Cisco Aironet 350 wireless ethernet card
If you install Windows patch xxx in addition to upgrading the windows
driver it also upgrades the firmware in the Cisco 350 wireless card.
Info from Cisco follows. The "good" firmware is 4.25.30 or 1.6.7 or 1.5 .
If it is 5.20.17 then it is the BAD firmware. I got these firmware
versions from the Cisco website.
"Recommended repair is a firmware down-grade of the Cisco Aironet 350
PCMCIA network interface card as Cisco has not released a updated Linux
for the upgraded firmware as of yet."
3com 905 ethernet (Not the A or B or C version)
Seems like orginal 905 does not work but 905a does.
Make sure Plug-n-Play if OFF in your bios. This has
made some 905's work.
Also seems like there is a kernel bug tickled by kudzu. So
to get this card to work you will need to turn kudzu off.
chkconfig --level 35 kudzu off
Intel 965 based motherboards
Intel does not include a PATA(IDE) controller on the 965 chipset.
Most motherboard vendors are including a PATA(IDE) controller but
some are not compatible with the 308 kernel. You can try the
"all-generic-ide" kernel boot option. It has worked with some
pata controllers.
Some motherboard vendors are using a non intel sata controller
that is not compatible with the 308 kernel.
Some motherboard vendors are using a non intel ethernet controller
that is not compatible with the 308 kernel.
So research this issue before buying a Intel 965 based
motherboard.
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SOFTWARE ISSUES/BUGS
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XFree86 and ATI
After the successful install (again using the graphical X-windows
install) and after what appears
to be a successful boot up, I get a blank screen and just sits there.
Both the Radeon and Nvidia driver in this XFree86 4.3.0 release does
not detect that you are using the digital port of flat panel monitors.
The easy thing to do is plug into the analog port until you can get
past the install.
sgi_fam with tcpwrappers(/etc/hosts.deny)
Error messages /var/log/secure such as
Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[25122]: FAIL: sgi_fam libwrap
from=<no address>
Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[3819]: START: sgi_fam pid=25123
from=<no address>Jan 22 12:33:33 systemname xinetd[25123]: FAIL:
sgi_fam libwrap from=<no address>
Only solution so far is to change /etc/hosts.allow to allow sgi_fam
with
fam: ALL
This could be a security risk so you must decide.
redhat-config-packages
This rpm only installs packages via cdrom. It is not useful.
It does NOT work so do NOT try to use it. Use yum instead.
It is useful. It is only included here because rpms have dependencies
on it and I do not want to change those to remove the dependencies.
/usr/X11R6/lib
The "final link" to each of the libraries is missing.
Should be
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6 <- libX11.so
But is
libX11.so.6.2 <- libX11.so.6
Solution is to install Xfree86-devel. This rpm will make the
missing links.
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INFO
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Web Site
https://www.scientificlinux.org
FTP
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/309/
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 of Security Errata
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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements
necessary to successfully install Scientific Linux :
- Minimum: Pentium-pro class, but in reality at least a Pentium II
- Recommended for text-mode:
- Minimum of 400 MHz Pentium-II
- Minimum of 256MB Memory
- Recommended for graphical:
- Minimum of 400 MHz Pentium II
- Minimum of 256MB
Hard Disk Space (NOTE: Additional space will be required for user data):
- Common "Generic Desktop" Installation : 4.0GB
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ERRATA included - rebuilt from SRPMS
/errata/SL/RPMS/
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ERRATA released after Update 9
* gimp-perl-1.2.3-20.9.el3.i386.rpm
* kernel-2.4.21-52.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-doc-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-smp-2.4.21-52.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-smp-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-source-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm
* php-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-devel-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-imap-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-ldap-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-mysql-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-odbc-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* php-pgsql-4.3.2-43.ent.i386.rpm
* libvorbis-1.0-8.el3.i386.rpm
* libvorbis-devel-1.0-8.el3.i386.rpm
* openoffice.org-1.1.2-40.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
* openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-40.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
* openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-40.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm
* bind-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm
* bind-chroot-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm
* bind-devel-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm
* bind-libs-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm
* bind-utils-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm
* cups-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm
* cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm
* cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rpm
* cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-15.i386.rpm
* cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.15-15.i386.rpm
* cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.15-15.i386.rpm
* cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-15.i386.rpm
* cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.15-15.i386.rpm
* GFS-6.0.2.36-4.i686.rpm
* GFS-devel-6.0.2.36-4.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-6.0.2.36-4.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-hugemem-6.0.2.36-4.i686.rpm
* GFS-modules-smp-6.0.2.36-4.i686.rpm
* glibc-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-2.3.2-95.50.i686.rpm
* glibc-common-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-debug-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-profile-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* glibc-utils-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* httpd-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
* httpd-devel-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
* kernel-2.4.21-51.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-51.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-doc-2.4.21-51.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-51.EL-1.2.13-15.17.SL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-51.EL-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-51.ELsmp-1.2.13-15.17.SL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-module-openafs-2.4.21-51.ELsmp-1.2.13-15.17.SL.i686.rpm
* kernel-smp-2.4.21-51.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-smp-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-51.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* kernel-source-2.4.21-51.EL.i386.rpm
* kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-51.EL.athlon.rpm
* kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-51.EL.i686.rpm
* mod_ssl-2.0.46-68.sl3.i386.rpm
* nptl-devel-2.3.2-95.50.i686.rpm
* nscd-2.3.2-95.50.i386.rpm
* perl-Net-DNS-0.31-4.el3.noarch.rpm
* qt-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-config-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-designer-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-devel-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-MySQL-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-ODBC-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* qt-PostgreSQL-3.1.2-17.RHEL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.3.SL3.i386.rpm
* squid-2.5.STABLE3-7.3E.i386.rpm
* star-1.5a08-5.i386.rpm
* sysreport-1.3.7.2-18.noarch.rpm
* tetex-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-afm-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-doc-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-dvips-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-fonts-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-latex-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-67.10.i386.rpm
* vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.14.i386.rpm
* xpdf-2.02-10.RHEL3.i386.rpm
