Official archive date for Scientific Linux 4 - June 12 2012
As of February 2012 Scientific Linux 4 has been receiving no updates of any type since it has been designated End of Life. The extra length of public availability was provided for sites which have continued to run Scientific Linux 4. For the last few months it has remained in the standard location. On June 12 2012 we will be moving all instances of Scientific Linux 4 into the 'obsolete' directory under /linux/scientific/ . This is the same place that Scientific Linux 3 has been since it was archived. They will be at /linux/scientific/obsolete/. This move will break all yum update operations that use the old path. If you wish to use our archived copies you may update your /etc/yum.repos.d/ files to point to this archived location they can still function while the archive is available. Again, this is location where we will archive Scientific Linux 4 after June 12 2012. We have no plans to delete Scientific Linux 4 or Scientific Linux 3 at this time. We are merely making a clear distinction between current distributions, which can receive updates, and obsolete ones, which will not receive updates. Sites requiring Scientific Linux 3 or Scientific Linux 4 should make a local copy of these trees so that they are always available to you if you need them. You can then update your /etc/yum.repos.d/ files to point to this local mirror for increased performance. No modifications of Scientific Linux 5 or Scientific Linux 6 will be made as a part of this change. -- Scientific Linux Developers
octave and octave packages
We have a newly minted SL 6.2 machine, and we have installed octave. Unfortunately, its version number, 3.4.2, is just one minor revision too old to use the source-forge repository. Is there anyone who can point to a repository with octave packages that match the SL octave version number? Thanks, Art Edwards
Re: XFCE 4.10
On 05/31/2012 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 06/01/2012 03:16 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: Andrew Z wrote: just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24 SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22. This sort of thing is why you exchange "cutting edge" for stability. Its the same issue with moving KDE ahead to > 4.3: a lot of the core distro would have to go along with it. The dependency breakages (or, at a minimum, package rebuilds) required are a hard enough maintenance problem that its better to just spin off a new distro than to deal with rifted library problems. Distros get hard to maintain pretty fast, which is why most distros don't make it very far. Since both XFCE and KDE aren't part of SL or TUV's distro but come from EPEL (and probably other repos) its impossible to expect the SL team to decide to fork the entire distro for the sake of one window manager, as this is completely against their goals. Just a minor correction, KDE is indeed part of TUV/SL, it just is not the latest bleeding edge, as you state. -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
