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Jon Peatfield wrote:
> Not vital/important for alpha-testing but a glance through the message
> showed...
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> The R listed isn't the R-2.5.0 that was added as a test for 5.0 (of
> course our R users will no doubt be expecting 2.6.0 soon (released in
> October)
>
> I see no obvious reference to the yum installonlyn plugin though I
> suppose it might be hidden in one of the other yum packages. If not I
> can offer you the trivial srpm we use...
>
> Attempting to rsync over the 5rolling currently results in:
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> rsync: send_files failed to open "/5rolling/i386/yum-conf-LQ-BWW" (in
> scientific): Permission denied (13)
>
> Sadly I'm likely to be unable to test the alphs much in the next few
> days, but I will try...
>
> -- Jon
Hi Jon,
The alpha release was just the updates of RedHat's releases, and the only
customizing was the packages that we had to (sl-release, sl-release-notes,
yum-conf). You did point that out, I'm just repeating. :)
I have thought of a plan for R.
The problem is that we have two sets of users. Those that want the latest R
and those that want the stable, this is what we use R.
As each S.L. release comes out, we'll just check and see what the latest R is,
and put it in that release. But we don't update the R in the older releases.
So if a person wants to sit on whatever R came with S.L. 4.5, they can just
stay at S.L. 4.5. Or just use the R in S.L. 4.5 and put it in their excludes
line for yum.
This will allow us to get a new version out every 6 months, which should keep
at least a fair amount of the R users happy, I hope.
Troy
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