[WBEL-users] Release Candidate 2 is out!

[Graeme Seaton]

Hi,

Is there a rsync site available for getting rc2? 

I'm assuming that the difference in images between rc1 & rc2 shouldn't 
be that great and I'm quite bandwidth constrained :-/  (For what it is 
worth, happy to put the images on the torrent once I get them)

TIA,

Graeme

John Morris wrote:

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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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