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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna