Note that all of the info that Troy just mentioned is in the release 
notes.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30?/i386/SL.releasenote

-Connie Sieh

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Why was tcl-devel in unsupported?
> Short Story
> RedHat didn't include most of their '-devel' rpm's at all in RHEL3.  We 
> got the rpm's when we recompiled the code, and up through S.L. 3.0.2 we 
> put them in a separate directory called unsupported.
> In S.L. 3.0.3 we merged this directory into the main rpm directory.
> 
> Long Story
> See above, plus this.
> RedHat didn't like getting bug reports on their '-devel' rpm's, so they 
> basically just took them out.
> We put them in an accessable area for hopefully obvious reason's.  We, 
> and most others developing on S.L., needed those rpm's.
> Me mergerd the directories in S.L. 3.0.3 because it was a little silly 
> having them in a separate place.
> One final note is that RedHat has finally seen the light and put 90% of 
> those rpm's into their release, in either Update 3 or 4.
> 
> Troy
> 
> Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
> > Hi Jean-Michel,
> > 
> > No don't know why it was in `notsupported'.  I'd guess it is how RH
> > initially organised RHEL 3 - something to do with licencing I believe,
> > but the folks at Fermi may know something different.  
> > 
> > Martin. 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jean-Michel Barbet 
> >>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> >>Sent: 09 February 2005 09:11
> >>To: Bly, MJ (Martin)
> >>Cc: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Re: TCL devel SL302
> >>
> >>
> >>Bly, MJ (Martin) wrote:
> >>
> >>>Jean-Michel,
> >>>
> >>>Our our local mirror of Fermi, tcl.h is in tcl-devel which is:
> >>>
> >>>.../SL/3.0.2/i386/notsupported/RPMS/tcl-devel-8.3.5-92.i386.rpm
> >>>
> >>>So you should be able to locate it on the Fermi system in the
> >>>`notsupported' bit.
> >>
> >>Works. Thanks very much Martin.
> >>
> >>By the way, do you know why it is in "unsupported" ?
> >>
> >>Jean-Michel.
> >>
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