Jan Iven wrote: > On 02/11/07 18:31, Troy Dawson wrote: >> Hi All, >> I'll be at the spring Hepix in St. Louis next week. I'll be giving >> the usual 6 month S.L. status, as well as leading the usual S.L. >> question/answer/discussion forum. >> Connie wasn't able to make it to this hepix. I will be arriving >> sometime on tuesday, and then the S.L. stuff is on Friday morning. > > Neither Jarek nor myself will be there. Perhaps you could gently > initiate a discussion on the expected SL4 lifetime? > Very good idea. A discussion to see what people are expecting, with the knowledge that the real date will be set at the Spring 2008 Hepix. > We also still seem to be moving only slowly with respect to "scientific" > addon software - perhaps it would be worth to see whether the CentOS or > EPEL fare any better with this? (and perhaps ship with disabled YUM repo > entries for them)? > That's a good idea as well. Find out which repositories from CentOS people want in. The one thing I worry about with EPEL is that I have heard that they often are not compatible with the CentOS, dag, and atrpms repositories. I haven't confirmed this, just heard it once or twice. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________