On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:29 AM, A Rojas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I took a longer look at their build/install system, and it doesn't >> look like it is very flexible in using external packages. >> It fully provides http://www.sagemath.org/packages/standard/ by default. >> These packages are optional http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/ >> which you would have to install after installing sage-mathematics >> afaik. >> Also, another optional package is in http://www.sagemath.org/sagedb/ >> which is basically a database that's worth a 2.6GB download :/ >> I have contacted upstream in case there is a relatively sane way of >> using external packages that come with the distro. I will post back if >> upstream says it's possible, but it looks like it won't be possible. >> > > Mandriva has had a sage package built with external apps for a while which > works quite well [1], it could be interesting to see if their spec file can > be translated to a PKGBUILD. Also gentoo has a split ebuild here [2]. See > also [3] for the Fedora plans for a package, although it seems stalled at > the moment. > > [1] http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi- > bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/sagemath/current/SPECS/sagemath.spec?view=co > [2] http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo > [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE > > >
Interesting, looking at the spec file, it looks like a major pita. I'll look over it more thoroughly and see exactly what it does to see if I could possibly create a PKGBUILD
