Thanks
for your reply. I didn't mean to rush things, only to ask on
the status. We can wait for the bug to be fixed, as our OS is
possibly too old to run 1.6.17 (RHEL 5.5) and repoforge
contains RPM for RHEL5.5 up to 1.6.15 only.
You could try one of these (i386 versions are also available):