[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-08 Thread Maurizio
Hi, let me give a quick reference for starting with ppa: http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/launchpad-ppa-tips/ regards Maurizio On Oct 24, 5:30 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > The IRC logs show a recent conversation (again) about Sage packaging for > Ubuntu.  We all know it would be a massive amount

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-04 Thread Eric Drechsel
Is the goal to produce portable i686 packages or portable i686 packages that use extended vector instructions on machines that support them? Shouldn't packages built without using those instructions work on all i686 compat architectures? On Nov 4, 10:38 am, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4,

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-04 Thread Nils Bruin
On Nov 4, 10:38 am, William Stein wrote: > It would be really, really awesome in anybody could figure out how to > produce i686 binaries that work on all machines.    Nobody has ever > done so successfully.  The only two packages in the Sage that cause > problems are MPIR (fork of GMP) and ATLAS

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-04 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Eric Drechsel wrote: > > So regarding a sage personal package archive, I see another advantage > that has perhaps been discussed elsewhere: over time, dependencies > could be moved from a monolithic package -> a dependent package in the > PPA, likely just a versio

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-04 Thread Eric Drechsel
So regarding a sage personal package archive, I see another advantage that has perhaps been discussed elsewhere: over time, dependencies could be moved from a monolithic package -> a dependent package in the PPA, likely just a version bump of the official Ubuntu package -> eliminated from the PPA

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-11-02 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >>> I solve this problem by using gmail, filtering all messages into the >>> "sage" label (folder) and then when I want to check threads, which I >>> am involved in, I click on the "sent emails

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> >> I solve this problem by using gmail, filtering all messages into the >> "sage" label (folder) and then when I want to check threads, which I >> am involved in, I click on the "sent emails" link and gmail will >>

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > > I solve this problem by using gmail, filtering all messages into the > "sage" label (folder) and then when I want to check threads, which I > am involved in, I click on the "sent emails" link and gmail will > highlight those threads that contain new emails. So it's super

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > I solve this problem by using gmail, filtering all messages into the > "sage" label (folder) and then when I want to check threads, which I > am involved in, I click on the "sent emails" link and gmail will > highlight those threads that co

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Tim Abbott wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, William Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: >> > (Note that I'm not directly subscribed to this list and do not have >> > the time to read it regularly, so you may want to CC me directly if

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Abbott
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: > > (Note that I'm not directly subscribed to this list and do not have > > the time to read it regularly, so you may want to CC me directly if > > you want to ensure I see your replies.  I continue to

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-29 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: > > I think that this PPA plan is pretty reasonable idea; if you're > targeting just Ubuntu, then it will likely be less work than setting > up your own apt repository (I'm happy to provide technical advice on > either route). > > I thought I'd c

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-29 Thread Tim Abbott
I think that this PPA plan is pretty reasonable idea; if you're targeting just Ubuntu, then it will likely be less work than setting up your own apt repository (I'm happy to provide technical advice on either route). I thought I'd clarify a few things about how PPAs work: (1) There is no technic

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 at 11:50AM -0700, William Stein wrote: >> I don't know what PPA package means, but if we provide our own >> repository, then certainly we can make a monolithic package as >> described above. Moreover, there are genuine advantage

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Drake
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 at 11:50AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > I don't know what PPA package means, but if we provide our own > repository, then certainly we can make a monolithic package as > described above. Moreover, there are genuine advantages, in that the > Debian package system will search th

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-24 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > Hi > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:30:46AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: >> @debian experts: Is it easy to make a PPA package for Sage and put it on >> launchpad? > > @debian experts: > > Does a PPA package have to follow debian rules, or can

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-24 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:30:46AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > @debian experts: Is it easy to make a PPA package for Sage and put it on > launchpad? @debian experts: Does a PPA package have to follow debian rules, or can it be something like a binary deb from checkinstall which prepares th