[El] GRASS 6.4.1 on SL 6

[Peter Hopfgartner]

Peter Hopfgartner
--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] GRASS 6.4.1 on SL 6
Date: 16.05.2011 10:05

>> * What can I do to encourage elgis or EPEL to offer GRASS (and the
>missing
>> dependency: mesa-libGLw and mesa-libGLw-devel) for RHEL6/CentOS6/SL6??
>
>Contributing such written details as you did in your blog is the best
>way to encourage us! Thanks.
>
>(If no objection) The plan for EL6 from an ELGIS repos perspective (as
>discussed on the list over the months):
>- we will start working on EL6 when CentOS 6 is out: for better or
>worse, we currently sync with their releases, and our RPM factory is
>based on their repos
>- we will then check where EPEL does stand in terms of current
>coverage and motivation to extend it: as decided back in December, we
>will always be happier if packages can be maintained in EPEL rather
>than in  ELGIS
>- we will make sure that the latest stable versions of the main FLOSS
>GIS software are available for this platform, providing them if
>needed. GDAL, GRASS, MapServer, QGIS belong to the first ones on the
>list

Just as a tiny sidenote. I installed SL6 on my work notebook during the last weekend and will see how the GIS situation looks like.

>
>Cheers,
>
>Mathieu
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Peter
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