On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Matthias Schroeder wrote:

> Hi Connie, Troy et al.,
>
> I just noticed that SL5 has numpy version 1.0.4-1, whereas EPEL's numpy is 
> now at 1.2.1-2.el5. EPEL also has a version of matplotlib that requires 
> features of the newer numpy (numpy.ma), but without having a proper version 
> in the rpm requirement.
>
> This gives problems on all nodes that use protectbase, since they will not 
> update the version of numpy coming from SL5.
>
> Can you provide a newer numpy version in SL to fix this problem?

There is one in 
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/56/x86_64/SL/numpy-1.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm

> I guess using the epel version would be a good move.

SL doesn't change packages from those supplied by RHEL except with
a *very* good reason.
Gratuitously throwning epel packages in would make me very unhappy.

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