hi everybody
We run a lot of desktop SL machines running openoffice. Last week there
was an update to openoffice.org-ure package to
openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386
As a result our 5.x machines with openoffice 2.3 have been suddenly
upgraded to 3.1 - a bit of a surprise!
Unfortunately the update to openoffice.org-ure from sl-security broke
the custom OOo 3.0 we use on many of our desktops where the local custom
repo was not prioritized over sl-security repo (we provide newer
versions of OOo because only 2.3 was provided by the distro)
i'm surprised that nobody else seems to be affected by this, or has
mentioned the jump to 3.1.
we've now managed to put an emergency workaround in place. however, i'm
just writing this note in case others are affected.
any "me too"s, or were most people using the old 2.3 OOo provided by
SL5.x (where x<5) ?
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Simon Butcher
Computer and IT Systems Manager
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS,
United Kingdom.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7348
