On 02/11/2011 11:35 AM, Matthias Schroeder wrote:
On 02/11/2011 06:00 PM, Larry Vaden wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the
meeting here[1]:
http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=8&sessionId=1&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=106641
Troy,
Ewan's URL says, in part:
• 5.6 release history:
– RedHat released RHEL 5.6 on 13-Jan
– CERN released SLC 5.6 on 20-Jan
– FNAL released SL 5.6 last week
• CERN rolled out SLC 5.6 on desktops and central systems around 28-Jan
Is this correct or incorrect?
That is a question of definition. For SLC, most of the packages that
make up SLC5.6 have been released, but the installer is still in
testing. In that state it is almost 5.6, but it is not yet called 5.6.
For SLC everything is 'rolling', the individual minor releases are not
maintained as such, so there is no way to stay with eg 5.3 and only get
security updates for it. That is a feature of SLC (watch for the 'C'!).
HTH,
Matthias
I can't speak for CERN at all, so I'm glad that Matthias answered that.
FNAL did *not* release SL 5.6.
We put out an Alpha release. That is not a final release, but it did
have the rebuilt RHEL packages, except for one stuborn one.
(read: my curiosity is killing me based on what I read here.}
My presumption is that non-government use of SL is permitted if not
welcome; feel free to correct me on that.
You are correct.
Troy
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