On Friday 13 July 2007, Connie Sieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, jeffrey d anderson wrote: > > On Friday 13 July 2007 14:50, Connie Sieh wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Michael Hannon wrote: > >>> Hi, folks. I notice that the RPM's for gsl and gsl-devel no longer > >>> seem to be included in SL 5.0. > >>> > >>> I.e., on a system running SL 4.4 the "Vendor" for the gsl packages is > >>> "Scientific Linux", but on a 5.0 system the "Vendor" is "ATrpms.net". > >>> See the appended. > >>> > >>> I'm perfectly happy to use Axel's repository, but I wonder: why the > >>> change? It introduces a slight non-uniformity into one of our > >>> procedures. > >> > >> TUV decided to not include gsl. > >> > >> Is the issue of "non-uniformity" because some of your programs come > >> from ATrpms.net and some from SL ? > >> > >> Since gsl is clearly related to "science" we will research the inclusion > >> of it in the next SL5. > >> > >> -connie > > > > Hi: > > > > If we're on the subject of packages deleted by TUV, but expected by > > scientists, I'd nominate xemacs and mozilla as well. > > Many have looked for a xemacs src rpm that is currently supported and I > think there was not much there. If someone wants to take xemacs and > "support the building" of it. Then we will add it to the release. The > "support" would include creating new versions when security issues > dictate.
There is an xemacs for CentOS 5 in the testing area of the www.karan.org repo. That's the one I installed. It seems to work, but of course must still be in testing for some reason. Perhaps this 3rd party repo situation will fill most of these holes. There are also a lot of things in CentOS extras that work fine on SL. > > Mozilla is not supported by the Mozilla.org anymore. There is > seamonkey which is mozilla but with community support. Yes, I meant seamonkey. In that case I rebuilt from a FC6 source RPM. > > Firefox/thunderbird should be able to handle the mozilla/seamonkey duties. Well, you know scientists. Sometimes they don't want to switch from "what works" Getting them to move from mozilla-mail to thunderbird is non-trivial. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- jeffrey anderson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Mailstop 50a-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
