Jon Peatfield wrote: > Not vital/important for alpha-testing but a glance through the message > showed... > > The R listed isn't the R-2.5.0 that was added as a test for 5.0 (of > course our R users will no doubt be expecting 2.6.0 soon (released in > October) > > I see no obvious reference to the yum installonlyn plugin though I > suppose it might be hidden in one of the other yum packages. If not I > can offer you the trivial srpm we use... > > Attempting to rsync over the 5rolling currently results in: > > rsync: send_files failed to open "/5rolling/i386/yum-conf-LQ-BWW" (in > scientific): Permission denied (13) > > Sadly I'm likely to be unable to test the alphs much in the next few > days, but I will try... > > -- Jon Hi Jon, The alpha release was just the updates of RedHat's releases, and the only customizing was the packages that we had to (sl-release, sl-release-notes, yum-conf). You did point that out, I'm just repeating. :) I have thought of a plan for R. The problem is that we have two sets of users. Those that want the latest R and those that want the stable, this is what we use R. As each S.L. release comes out, we'll just check and see what the latest R is, and put it in that release. But we don't update the R in the older releases. So if a person wants to sit on whatever R came with S.L. 4.5, they can just stay at S.L. 4.5. Or just use the R in S.L. 4.5 and put it in their excludes line for yum. This will allow us to get a new version out every 6 months, which should keep at least a fair amount of the R users happy, I hope. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________