Packages Changed by Scientific Linux

Packages modified by Scientific Linux should contain sl within their release string.
Packages can be changed for a few reasons - removing trademarks, fixing errors, providing different behavior, or fixing build issues. Each of the changed packages below lists is reason for its change along with some historical information.

httpd

Changed the default index.html to remove upstream's branding.
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

plymouth

Removed the red colors for text mode.
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

redhat-logos

Changed all trademarked icons and pictures from upstream.

Changed styles of items such as background, gdm, and kdm to change the tradedress style.
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

sl-bookmarks

sl-bookmarks replaces redhat-bookmarks and removes upstream branding
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

sl-indexhtml

sl-indexhtml replaces redhat-indexhtml and removes upstream branding
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

sl-release

sl-release replaces redhat-release and removes upstream branding

This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

sl-release-notes

sl-release-notes replaces Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes*
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

anaconda

Add the Scientific Linux install classes
DVD installs do not ask for the network unless needed
This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this release.

redhat-rpm-config

Changed to recognize Scientific Linux as an Enterprise Linux

This change went into effect with SL 6.2 and continues in this release.

xorg-x11-server

Changed to remove TUV's support URL
This change went into effect with SL 6.3 and continues in this release.

Packages Changed for building reasons

Some packages would not build in our build environment. We changed these packages in order for them, or other packages, to build. The changes are minimal and are associated with a bug filed upstream to hopefully reduce this list over time. The final packages have been compared to freely available ones and are not significantly different.
To distinguish these packages we typically put 0.sl6 at the end of the release number.

epydoc

To fix a build error with python-nss a patch was added (bz#578920)

This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and was fixed by upstream in 6.1
For some features texlive-dvips and texlive-latex are required, but not listed in the SPEC file. (bz#522249)
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

opal

opal needed a bug fix patch in order for ekiga to build. The opal-3.6.6-buildopts.patch was missing one line for it to work properly. (bz#661769)
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

pilot-link

When "autoreconf -is" is called this causes libtool to run from /usr/bin/libtool which is version 2.2.6b but the source ships its own libtool in pilot-link-0.12.4/libtool which is version 2.2.6 and called from the make files. This version mix does not work. (bz#663632)
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.

rome

TUV 6 provides jdom-1.1.1 and not jdom-1.0 so we changed it to 1.1.1 (bz#665537)
This change went into effect with SL 6.0 and continues in this release.