Kevin Kofler wrote: > Neal Becker <ndbecker2 <at> gmail.com> writes: >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ > > This looks interesting, and indeed it would be nice to have this in > Fedora. I don't know of any existing efforts to package it. > > One problem will be that they're bundling many third-party components > which should be packaged separately: > http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/intro.html > > So the first step is to track down which of these dependencies are in > Fedora already, whether they need any patches to work with SAGE, whether > they are build-time (BuildRequires) dependencies, run-time (Requires) > dependencies or both, whether they're required or optional and package > those which are not in Fedora yet. > > I'd do things in the following order: > 1. package required build-time dependencies > 2. package required run-time dependencies > 3. package as many optional build-time dependencies as possible > 4. package SAGE itself > 5. package optional run-time dependencies (and decide on a case by case > basis whether it makes sense to add them as actual Requires: dependencies > to the package or not) > > Please tell us of your progress and link to any review requests as you > submit them. If you need help with the dependencies, please tell us that > too. Here is some info on Debian's packaging effort. Looks like this would be a big effort. http://wiki.sagemath.org/days6/sprint/debian -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
