On 04/14/2011 04:04 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Sébastien Bardeau wrote: > >> Dear Troy, >> >> On 04/13/2011 03:29 PM, Troy Dawson wrote: >>> On 04/13/2011 06:53 AM, Sébastien Bardeau wrote: >>>> Dear SL developers, >>>> >>>> how can I request an update of one of the libraries available in the >>>> Scientific Linux distribution and thus in the repositories? >>>> >>>> I work under Scientific Linux 5.5 but am not administrator of the >>>> system. His policy is that the system must match exactly the official >>>> distribution. I encounter an annoying bug in gtk+. The current version >>>> available under SL5.5 is 2.10.4, while I know for example that the bug >>>> has been fixed in 2.10.8 at least. Is it possible to update the micro >>>> number (i.e. bug fixes only) of the gtk+ libraries to 2.10.8 or even >>>> better to latest stable 2.10.14? Or should I first make the same request >>>> to RedHat 5.5, and you will then include it automatically? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help, >>>> >>>> Sebastien Bardeau >>>> >>> >>> You should make the request to RedHat, and we will include in >>> automatically. >> >> This makes sense. However, at which time scale the merge occurs? For example >> this bug in GTK+: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648555 has been >> fixed since 5 months in gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.1 (so obviously in EL5.5), while > > gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.6.i386.rpm and > gtk2-2.10.4-21.el5_5.6.x86_64.rpm > are in 55/{arch}/updates/fastbugs > and 5rolling > The command to get it updated would be yum --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs update gtk2\* Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __________________________________________________