[WBEL-users] Release Candidate 2 is out!

[John Morris]

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White Box Enterprise Linux Release Candidate 2 is now available.

The ftp mirrors will need some time to update, but BitTorrent downloads
should be available NOW.  Time to download and make sure any bugs you
reported are squished and that nothing new that has crept in that might
affect your intended use of the final release.

Yum and up2date are now in!  For this release they both default to
whiteboxlinux.org, which cannot service any sort of serious external load.  
Be sure to plug in one of the mirrors as soon as they catch up.  There are
commented out entries in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for both of the larger
mirrors.  Be sure to flip over to one of them if you expect to actually
get your errata at a decent speed.

While up2date+yum does work, it isn't close to being polished yet.  And
with my pitiful python skills it may never be perfect unless someone
better than me jumps in.  (hint!)  Most importantly, it keeps moaning
about a lack of RedHat's GPG key every run, even though it was left in
it's normal place AND a RedHat key is on the keyring in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn.  Even worse, it is allowing packages to be installed
which are signed with the WBEL key even though that key is NOT on the
keyring and the option to check signatures is enabled. Bottom line, it
sorta works but don't trust it on anything even close to mission critical 
yet.

rhnd nas been neutered, i.e. it still gets built but the service will not
get started.

Another glitch I didn't notice in time is the release notes hadn't made it
to the CD's root directory.  Oh well, here they are:


              White Box Enterprise Linux - Release Notes 3.0-RC2

   This  is  the second, and hopefully final, Release Candidate for White
   Box Enterprise Linux 3.0. There are not many differences from RC1:
    1. Lots of Trademark fixes.
    2. Patched sysstat.
    3. Correct  comps  package  gets  installed so redhat-config-packages
       works.
    4. RPM patched to work without /etc/redhat-release.
    5. flex bug on RC1 fixed.
    6. i586 support added.
    7. yum ported in from Fedora.
    8. up2date ported from Fedora and patched to remove trademarks.

   There are still some outstanding issues, assistance welcome:
    1. up2date still needs some work.
    2. RC2  is  self hosted with one exception. The binary for gettext is
       from RC1 because when built on White Box one .jar file is missing.
    3. tora  doesn't  have  support  for  Oracle.  This is believed to be
       solvable  by installing the free Oracle dev kit and rebuilding, if
       so should be fixed by -final.
    4. The  su  command  appears  in  both  /bin/  and /usr/bin/ for some
       reason.
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