[CentOS-devel] Re: Octave for CentOS5

Wed Mar 7 11:05:46 UTC 2007
Dhawal Doshy <dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com>

seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:08 -0500, Philip Ray Schaffner wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:41 -0400, Jeff Sheltren wrote: 
>>> On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apparently Octave has been orphaned by the upstream for EL5 ,  
>> ... 
>>> Hi Phil, if it is still in Fedora Extras, I imagine it will show up  
>>> in EPEL once it is publicly available...
>>>
>>> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/
>> Wasn't aware of EPEL.  I see it says "The EPEL repository is not yet
>> publicly available -- we are in the process of creation and initial
>> testing phase."
>>
>> Will keep an eye on it.
>>
> 
> well, it is available. looks like a poorly updated wiki page:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/

it is available but primarily for testing.. see the FAQ entry:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-2b31bca81622be07f290069a06146c4565fa5bc2