On Friday 13 July 2007, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, jeffrey d anderson wrote:
> > On Friday 13 July 2007 14:50, Connie Sieh wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > If we're on the subject of packages deleted by TUV, but expected by
> > scientists, I'd nominate xemacs and mozilla as well.
>
> Many have looked for a xemacs src rpm that is currently supported and I
> think there was not much there.  If someone wants to take xemacs and
> "support the building" of it.  Then we will add it to the release.  The
> "support" would include creating new versions when security issues
> dictate.

There is an xemacs for CentOS 5 in the testing area of the www.karan.org repo.  
That's the one I installed.  It seems to work, but of course must still be in  
testing for some reason.    Perhaps this 3rd party repo situation will fill 
most of these holes.  There are also a lot of things in CentOS extras that 
work fine on SL.

>
> Mozilla is not supported by the Mozilla.org anymore.  There is
> seamonkey which is mozilla but with community support.

Yes, I meant seamonkey.  In that case I rebuilt from a FC6 source RPM.

>
> Firefox/thunderbird should be able to handle the mozilla/seamonkey duties.

Well, you know  scientists.  Sometimes they don't want to switch from "what 
works"  Getting them to move from mozilla-mail to thunderbird is non-trivial.


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