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Re: Packages openmpi in SL5.3 x86_64
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:30:38 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the package openmpi (+related) have a lower version in
> security updates than in the reference for SL5.3 x86_64 :
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/x86_64/SL/
> => openmpi-1.2.7-6.el5.i386.rpm
>
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/x86_64/updates/security/
> => openmpi-1.2.3-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> Is this normal ?

Out of date skew is not necessarily expected, but unsurprising, if you
stay at an old release. Security updates that were published for SL
5.1 or SL 5.2 could be in the security updates channel, . Why aren't
you updated to SL 5.8, which is being actively maintained and has
openmpi-1.4.4 ?

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