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


>
> Thanks.
>
> 					- Mike
>
> [[log in to unmask] ~]# rpm -qi gsl
> Name        : gsl                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.5                      Vendor: Scientific Linux
>
> [[log in to unmask] ~]# rpm -qi gsl-devel
> Name        : gsl-devel                Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.5                      Vendor: Scientific Linux
>
>
> [[log in to unmask] ~]# rpm -qi gsl
> Name        : gsl                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.8                      Vendor: ATrpms.net
>
> [[log in to unmask] ~]# rpm -qi gsl-devel
> Name        : gsl-devel                Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.8                      Vendor: ATrpms.net
>
>