> Oh, the question mark behind gv, ncurses4 and readline41 was whether > we need them in the distribution or not. I was told in SL4 that > several experiments needed them, and I was just wondering if that was > still the case. Basically just wanted to ask if anybody is still > using these packages. ncurses4 is needed for some astronomy software; IRAF (http://iraf.noao.edu/) & ESO scisoft (http://www.eso.org/scisoft). As an alternate source, I think atrpms keeps ncurses4 packages for fedora. -- Chris Hunter Systems Programmer Department of Astronomy, Yale University [log in to unmask] Quoting Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>: > Stephan Wiesand wrote: >> Hi Troy, >> >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> As Ioannis has already said RHEL 5 was released. >>> >>> It was released on the birhtday of Albert Einstein, *and*, it was >>> released at >>> the time of pi. 3-14 1:59:26 (OK, so I can't verify the seconds, >>> let's just >>> pretend they got it) >>> I think that is a very fitting release to begin to compile and turn into >>> Scientific Linux. >> >> Right. >> >>> So the real work of building Scientific Linux 5 has begun. >> >> Great. >> >>> Step 1 is to recompile all of the source rpm's from RedHat, on a machine >>> running the alpha release of S.L.5. >>> Step 2 is to reinstall that machine with these new rpm's, and then >>> recompile >>> all the source rpm's from RedHat ... again. >>> This ensures the batter is light and frothy. >> >> Would anyone care to explain that to a european? Please reply off >> list, I'll post a summary... >> >>> Wait, no, it makes sure that the binary rpm's have been compiled with the >>> correct libraries. >>> >>> After step 1 and step 2 are done, we will put all the binaries into a >>> distribution and that will be our first beta release. Then we will >>> shake out >>> the bugs, tweek, and fine tune things. >>> >>> What is the timeframe: >>> This is just a educated guess. This is just to answer the question before >>> people ask it. In the words of the upstream vendor, "we will >>> release it when >>> it's ready." >>> First Beta - two weeks, so sometime around March 30 >>> Final Release - anywhere from 1 month to 2 months. If everything works >>> perfect, let's say April 16. But I'd love to have it out no later than May >>> 14. >> >> So, when are you going to release it? ;-) >> >>> The Whiteboard: >>> The whiteboard is sortof a copy of the whiteboard in my office. I >>> will try to >>> keep it updated so you can see what's going on. It's web location is at >>> >>> https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/rolling.whiteboard >> >> Since it's on that whiteboard: I've put up my latest OpenAFS SRPM here: >> >> >> http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL5/openafs.SLx-1.4.3-0.rc3.41.src.rpm >> >> Changes are really becoming incremental at this stage. I keep >> tracking the CVS, the mailing lists, and the bug tracker and put in >> the patches I think I fully understand and that clearly fix bugs. >> There's one such patch in rc3 that was not in our rc2 build, and one >> more in this package that was not in rc3. Both bugs seem to strike >> under rather special circumstances only, but they do exist. While >> what's in the current alpha is certainly at least of alpha quality, >> and hopefully much better, please use the above SRPM for SL5 beta - >> unless I come up with something even better before ;-) >> >> I verified that it builds and works on EL5 as released yesterday, at >> least with the el5xen kernel running in dom0 on x86_64 - the >> remaining configurations still have to be tested asap, but I don't >> expect any problems. >> >> Cheers, >> Stephan >> >> PS Since the whiteboard has a questionmark behind gv: I got it to build >> on EL5. Want the SRPM? >> > > Oh, the question mark behind gv, ncurses4 and readline41 was whether > we need them in the distribution or not. I was told in SL4 that > several experiments needed them, and I was just wondering if that was > still the case. Basically just wanted to ask if anybody is still > using these packages. > Since you already had gv recompiled for SL5 alpha, I am supposing > that you use it, so we should keep it in. > Is youre src rpm for gv newer than the one in SL4? (gv-3.5.8-29.src.rpm) > > Troy > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group > __________________________________________________ >