2011/11/11 Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz>: >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM, frosty <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have just discovered Sage & want to know if there are any folks here >> > working on making a Debian version that would work without having to >> > compile all the parts. i.e. use the needed files, apps & libraries >> > that are already packaged in Debian. >> >> There are people in the Mandriva and Gentoo communities that have got >> Sage (mostly) into their distros. Nobody in Debian is taking on the >> challenge, as it turns out. All it would take would be somebody who >> really wanted to do it (and had the drive). >> >> > Secondly I have downloaded the binary for Linux and have it installed >> > & runnimng: I want to actually compile Sage for my server which is an >> > AMD 6 core based server with 8Gb of ram running Debian stable. I >> > tried , but it errored out, error 1 showing a segmentation fault. I am >> > including the message snippet part of the install log to this mail. >> > Maybe it will help. >> >> Either you have some really old version of GCC that is broken, your >> compilers are misinstalled, or your hardware is somehow broken. >> "internal compiler error" means the compiler crashed, which can be >> caused by faulty hardware or a buggy compiler. >> > I think that when tabbott tried to get it into debian he tried to take the > highway in some way. In debian you can add repo. > Someone with debian knowledge could take the work we have done in > Gentoo and Mandriva and create a sage repo with binaries for debian. > All that is needed is someone with the drive, I, Christopher and Paulo > (Mandriva) would certainly help someone taking that route.
The major issue of working on integrating sage on a distro is how to keep up with upstream versions of packages. Save for packages where sage is upstream, I cannot, or not dare to, tell package maintainers to freeze for several years some packages, so, I either get it to work with sage or use some approach to have sage using the older version it distributes. The other major issue is when sage needs patches. You know, getting a patch in some projects sometimes may be an impossible mission, for the most different reasons. And then, if you attempt to add a patch to the package as distributed by the distro and you are not the maintainer, you may clash with that package maintainer because the patch does not come from upstream... But after all, I would say that like 95% of packages just works with the system version, and can keep up to date with updates. The major problem is getting it to work in the first time, after that, as long as it does not rot for too long, maintenance is a lot easier. Since start of working on sage on Mandriva I was expecting other distros to do the same, so that sage developers would actually use sage as shipped by their preferred distro, and would be a win win for everybody. Gentoo is doing a great job :-) > Francois Paulo -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
