TESTING - gnuplot42 update for SL5

2010-03-26 Thread Troy Dawson

Hello,
gnuplot42 is designed to give you the 4.2 version of gnuplot without 
interfering with the base version of gnuplot.
This version is now in the Scientific LInux 5 testing area.  If 
everything works out fine, then it will go into the contrib area, and 
then if things work out good, into the main Scientific Linux release.


To test

SL5
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 yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install gnuplot42

or you can download rpm's by hand at

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/gnuplot42/
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/gnuplot42/

Thanks
Troy Dawson
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Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-26 Thread Garrett Holmstrom

On 3/26/2010 4:54, Steve Traylen wrote:

Again if the EPEL review ever gets processed I will release and maintain that
at a higher release.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570318


I recommend taking a look at the IUS Community Project site [1], whose 
entire purpose is to provide newer, side-by-side installable versions of 
commonly-used programs.  You might have more success over there.


[1] http://iuscommunity.org/

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University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
Systems Staff


Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Traylen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Garrett Holmstrom
 wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 14:43, Steve Traylen wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Troy Dawson  wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, first problem.
>>> This requires wxGTK, which is not in Scientific Linux.
>>> Is that an important part?  Can it be removed as a dependancy?
>>> Do we want to also put that into SL?
>>
>> Doh, I never thought to check that it actually built on SL without EPEL.
>> Will get back to you.
>
> Adding your own copy of wxGTK instead of using EPEL's will create a
> nightmare for anyone who wants to use both your gnuplot42 package and
> anything in EPEL that depends on wxGTK.  If it doesn't cause any significant
> problems, please consider just disabling the bits of gnuplot that rely on
> wxGTK so the dependency goes away.

yes I completely agree.

> Or people could simply bite the bullet and use two packages from EPEL if
> gnuplot42 is that important to them.  Less duplication between repositories
> means a reduced chance of dependency solving problems for the whole
> distribution.

http://cern.ch/straylen/rpms/gnuplot42/sl/

are new SL5 packages which don't need EPEL. (*)

Again if the EPEL review ever gets processed I will release and maintain that
at a higher release.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570318

  Steve.

(*) I think they are okay on SL only but don't have a clean enough
system to hand to be
sure. Some sl-mock-config packages might make sense.

>
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> Garrett Holmstrom
> University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
> Systems Staff
>



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