> I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open > source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by > making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined > person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling > (BUGS) has caused something of a methodological landslide since the > early 1990s, helping scholars to model processes that were thought to > be too difficult. > > In Linux, we do not have access to the OpenBUGS GUI, which > > I've built deb and rpm packages for RedHat, Fedora and Ubuntu. They > are available in my webspace and in the project. > > I wish these could be in the official linux repositories, but I've not > tried to put these into an official repository because there are 2 > problems that seem prohibitive. > > First, the (now open) code for OpenBugs is written in Object Pascal > and it requires a compiler framework called "Black Box" which is, as > far as I can understand, available only for MS Windows. The OpenBUGS > team compiles that library, and then for linux we use some accessor > scripts to send jobs to it. > > This, of course, goes against the packaging policy that pre-compiled > libraries are prohibited. > > I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is > actually available and open. This is more reasonable than > re-packaging the closed Nvidia drivers, for example. f it's actually open, build from source. If it won't build from source due to a missing dependency, include that in Fedora, built from source. If that's not possible because something it needs isn't open, I don't see how this can be allowed. -J > Second, there is a little packaging problem for 64 bit systems. The > library that is provided is only 32 bit, and to build it for a 64 bit > system, there is a somewhat confusing situation. The library itself > gets put into /usr/lib, which is supposed to be for 64 bit libraries. > And to make the whole thing package up in a workable way, the arch > ends up saying the packge is x86_64, even though it is only 32 bit. > To run OpenBUGS on a 64 bit system, one h as to install the 32bit libc > packages. > > I've built the RPM on a 32bit system, it comes out with the proper x86 > target in the file name,but that package will not instlal on the 64 > bit systems. Should it? (As I said, I can build the package on the 64 > bit system, and it comes out with a 64 bit file name, but it is really > 32 bits.). Oh, bother, this is confusing to me, I can't imagine your > situation. > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/i386/kups/packages/ > > On the other hand, the ones I build on a 64 bit system: > > Show up with 64bit names even though they are 32 bit programs: > > http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/x86_64/openbugs-3.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm > > In the current Fedora framework, I can't understand if that is > supposed to happen. > > -- > Paul E. Johnson > Professor, Political Science > 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 > University of Kansas > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
