*Troy smacks his head* Yet another case of 'reply-to-All' versus 'Reply-To' Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag ... but let me do a more formal post. Troy Troy Dawson wrote: > Fernando Avila Castro wrote: > >> I have built packages for Scientific Python >> (http://www.scipy.org/) for SL 3.0.4 >> Also, I made some useful companions such matplotlib, gnuplot-py >> and numarray (rebuilt for use with ATLAS). >> >> It's not perfect yet, as you'll need numeric (easily obtanained >> from dag repository, and install pylab.py in >> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ >> in a manual way (solved in python2.3). You will also need to deinstall >> lapack and blas, as it conflicts with ATLAS. >> >> You can get them at >> ftp://danny.astro.uson.mx/UNIX/SL > > > Hello, > I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you about this. But I've > been debating what to do with various small groups of rebuilt rpm's such > as yours. > It's sort of a tricky position. We definatly want more scientific > packages such as what you packaged. We also want to make sure that > nobody put's in something that not be licensed, or even worse, has > something like a trojan in it. > Anyway, I think we've figured out a process. > > First, we're going to have a 'community' section. This will be links to > various web pages, package repositories (such as yours), articles, and > other things that arn't done by the official S.L. developers, but done > by various community members. > > Second, if a person want's their package to get into the contrib > section, they need to sign both the rpm and the srpm, so that both can > be posted up in the contrib area. > > Third, if a package in contrib is wanted by the S.L. community, does not > conflict with packages already in S.L., and a person is willing to > maintain it, then we'll move it into the main release. > > So, anyway. What I would like to ask you, is if we could put a link to > your ftp area in our community section of the Scientific Linux web site? > > Thanks > Troy Dawson -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________