On 07/04/2011 05:03 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > 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 Thanks for the pointer, seems I have missed that one. > > >> 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. Understood. I was under the impression that numpy had been added by SL, and did not originate from TUV for 5. > Gratuitously throwning epel packages in would make me very unhappy. I fully subscribe to that. Matthias >