> And in case I haven't already thanked you (and I think I did, 

Yes, you did (more than once actually ;-))

> but it
> bears repeating) thanks for sticking with IA64 up to SLC 5.4; 

As you know we had to stop this effort .. I believe by
now we do not have any IA64 systems remaining at CERN ..

> it made my
> job of rebuilding CentOS 5 packages on IA64 much much easier, and SLC
> 5.4 is still my startup distribution for bootstrapping an Altix before
> pointing to my C5 rebuild repos (I haven't spun ISO's as yet, just
> rebuilt the packages).

Do you have your rebuild available somewhere to the public ?

Regards

Jarek



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