hi everybody

We run a lot of desktop SL machines running openoffice. Last week there 
was an update to openoffice.org-ure package to 
openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386

As a result our 5.x machines with openoffice 2.3 have been suddenly 
upgraded to 3.1 - a bit of a surprise!

Unfortunately the update to openoffice.org-ure from sl-security broke 
the custom OOo 3.0 we use on many of our desktops where the local custom 
repo was not prioritized over sl-security repo (we provide newer 
versions of OOo because only 2.3 was provided by the distro)

i'm surprised that nobody else seems to be affected by this, or has 
mentioned the jump to 3.1.

we've now managed to put an emergency workaround in place. however, i'm 
just writing this note in case others are affected.

any "me too"s, or were most people using the old 2.3 OOo provided by 
SL5.x (where x<5) ?
-- 
Simon Butcher

Computer and IT Systems Manager
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS,
United Kingdom.

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7348