On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:59:16AM +0200, Cedric BRINER wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:19:29AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:04:57AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > > Cedric BRINER wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm working as a sysadmin at the Geneva Observatory and we do need > > > > some softwares which are not provided by the debian distribution. So > > > > I thought that it will be a good idea to do this job well once and to > > > > give this back to the debian community. > > > > > > > > the software that I'm willing to package are: pcfitsio, pyraf, iraf > > Morning, > > > > things to get it to compile (and, were I to spend more time on the > > iraf packages, I would probably NOT compile from source, but write a > > wget wrapper for the binaries provided by upstream, since I'm not able > > to get shared libraries working with iraf's present "memory > > management" scheme in conflict with my kernel's MM scheme). There is > > involving relocation of ~5 conffiles to /etc/, splitting between > > /usr/lib/iraf/ and /usr/share/iraf/ ... nothing terrible here. > sounds good to do an wrapper which will download iraf > (like do flashplugin-nonfree). So I think that I'll go this way. > > mentors: do you see any reason do not go this way ? > > > But IMHO the iraf system is ill-designed by today's standards. I have > > just uploaded a page about this: > > > > http://justinpryzby.com/astro/code/iraf.html > This is exactly what I've heard from the other sysadmin guy after > showing him your email. > > >> I don't expect that you're going to be able to convince your > > observers/data analysts to use anything but iraf. So I suggest my > > 3-step Hacker's Installation Procedure for Iraf: > So this should be _the_ steps that has to be ascomplished on the deb wrapper ? That is the essence of the steps. I'm sure there will be more .. for example, it should probably try to maintain the conffile setup I have in /etc/iraf/. (Lets coordinate this package off-list, okay?) You should probably read my full .diff.gz:
ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/contrib/debian/iraf_current.diff.gz I have an unreleased version (which I'm not planning on releasing) which I can review for other changes when your package is started. > > Lastly, Florian Ernst kindly sponsored my sextractor package last > > week; it is now waiting in the new queue. ds9 is already available in > > Debian (though it won't be for much longer if upstream doesn't provide > > unobfuscated source in their v4 release). > wow, I'll have some conversation with the astronomers to see if they're > interested on this sextractor Its a pretty well-known software package; it does the same thing as iraf "starfind" and "daofind", but has a better reputation (though it is not targetted at crowded fields, as is daofind).. Its used by a number of surveys (such as LONEOS). > > Iraf aside, what software do your astronomers need? And, what iraf > > tasks do they use? > I've made a small turn of everyones here and ask them which part of iraf and > which softwares to they used and which softwares Thanks; this list is useful to me. > ds9 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ Done! Waiting for v4 and unobfuscatred source. -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
