Re: Packages where EPEL beats EL

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mark Chappell <tremble tremble org uk> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> Ok if my cave man hacking attempts were correct then this is the list
>> of things that in EPEL beats EL-5 stuff:
>>
>> Looking up all competing providers
>> Got all the potential problems, checking them
>> ==================================================================
>> lapack-devel-3.0-37.el5.x86_64 requires liblapack.so.3()(64bit)
>> epel wins with atlas
>>   atlas - epel
>>   lapack - el5
>
>
> That liblapack.so.3 is tucked away in /usr/lib64/atlas/ and isn't on the
> library path by default IIRC.

What I did was compare the list of provides with the list of requires.
One package requires liblapack and another says it provides it. My
compare routine may need some work to make it better :).


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