Hi Adam, Am Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:31:55PM -0600 hat Adam C Powell IV getippert: > Barry Smith wrote: > > If you like eventually we can keep a debian package version of PETSc at > > our web site once it has evolved a bit. > > Thanks for the offer, but due to the nature of the Debian package management > system that won't be necessary. I'll provide more details if you like. > > If I could ask one favor though, mention of the Debian package on the PETSc > website (perhaps on the download page) would let Debian users they don't need > to > build it from scratch. When it is mature and on the mirroring system, > something > like the following download page entry will suffice: > > "For Debian: the packages petsc1 petsc-dev petsc-doc are in the unstable > distribution."
One could also include a link in the form of http://packages.debian.org/petsc (Have a look at http://packages.debian.org/scalapack to see what results this gives.) Regards, -- Philipp work home Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PGP] +41 1 632 60 38 +41 1 862 73 14 Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux. See http://www.debian.org/

