Re: Feeling Adventurous
Paul Wessel <[email protected]>
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On Feb 5, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Orion Poplawski <[email protected]> wrote: > Please let's try not to be disparaging. Not intended towards you. > On EL breaking API/ABI is extremely > frowned upon, that's why we're not updating to GMT5 on released versions. GMT4 had no documented API at all; GMT5 does. What is ABI? GMT5 is backwards compatible with GMT4. > GMT5 will be in Fedora 21 and EPEL7 when they are released. That is good news! -p > > We do seem to be at 4.5.9 instead of 4.5.11 in EPEL6 (and Fedora 19). That's > because I'm one volunteer trying to maintain well over 100 packages over 2 > operating systems (Fedora and RHEL) and multiple releases of each. Help would > be greatly appreciated: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join#OS_Developer > > I've submitted an update for EPEL6: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/GMT-coastlines-2.2.4-1.el6,GMT-4.5.11-1.el6 > > If you use EPEL's GMT package, please test it out and give karma if it works > or doesn't. > > Regards, > > Orion > > On 02/04/2014 12:34 PM, Paul Wessel wrote: >> I dont know if RH is moving that quickly; they seem to prefer buggier older >> versions, like Ubuntu (there seems to be the policy that version X.Y.Z+n must >> be buggier than X,Y.Z, but for stable GMT4 that is backwards...). Perhaps >> Orion can tell us. >> -p >> >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Mark Fenbers (NOAA Federal) <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> Greetings! >>> >>> I was feeling adventurous today and decided to give GMT5 a try. I visited >>> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu and followed the instructions to do a "yum >>> install GMT" as root on my RHEL6 box. Yum went out and installed GMT-4.5.9 >>> on my box! I was expecting 5.1.0. What do I need to do to install 5.1.0?? >>> >>> Mark >>> To unsubscribe, send the message "signoff gmt-help" to >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mark_fenbers.vcf> >> >> To unsubscribe, send the message "signoff gmt-help" to [email protected] > > > -- > Orion Poplawski > Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 > NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 > 3380 Mitchell Lane [email protected] > Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com > > To unsubscribe, send the message "signoff gmt-help" to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send the message "signoff gmt-help" to [email protected]