[El] GRASS 6.4.0 (release) available in elgis-testing

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: [El] GRASS 6.4.0 (release) available in elgis-testing
Date: 05.09.2010 07:28

>Hi,
>
>GRASS 6.4.0 has been released and packages have been built for it in
>elgis-testing.
>
>The GRASS team would like to have has many binaries as possible before
>they widely announce it, so it would be great if you could test this
>build in your various usage scenarios.
>We would then be able to push it quickly to elgis (stable).
>
>Unfortunately the versioning did not work very well and previous
>builds (6.4.0RC6-3.el5.elgis in elgis, 6.4.0svn-r43144.el5.elgis in
>elgis-testing) are considered newer by yum.
>
>So, in order to test it, one needs:
>- to remove a previously installed version (yum remove grass*)
>- exclude grass form elgis (stable) by editing
>/etc/yum.repos.d/elgis.repo:
>
>[elgis]
>name=EL GIS 5 - $basearch
>...
>exclude=grass*
>
>Sorry for that, we need to find a better versioning/naming for the
>next dev cycle.
>
>I also had some issues (like wx not being used as the defautl UI)
>which where solved by cleaning up my user directory:
>rm -rf ~/.grass*
>

I created a new virtual machine (64 bit), enabled EPEL and installed GRASS, excluding GRASS from the stable elgis repo. As by now everything went smooth and the wx-GUI came up nicely.

I will do some more testing later on.

>Cheers,
>
>Mathieu

Bye,

Peter

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