Tirsdag 28 juni 2011 10.05.29 skrev roucaries bastien : > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Debianizers, > > > > I uploaded the Geant4 package to git now, and are wondering if there are > > anyone willing to help me fix it/improve it. Currently I have managed to > > build a previous version 4.9.3.p02. The recent version, 4.9.4.p01 however, > > have not been built successfully. A couple of comments: > > > > - The packaging depended on CERNLIB before, but since Geant4 itself should > > not depend on CERNLIB anymore (?), I tried to remove the dependency > > (potentially not very successfully) > > Could you give me the list of symbols used from cernlib ? We could > therefore depend only on a subclass of cernlib
There should be none. However, there were some packaging scripts (or something like that), which depended on cernlib. I believe the goal should be to completely drop any dependencies on cernlib. > > > - The package depends on CLHEP, which has a redistribution license problem. > > We have been allowed to redistribute it on our unofficial CERN Debian > > server, where you can find the package: http://cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/ > > according http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/ and > https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/clhep/ > it is now GPL 2 (just see later) Aha, did not notice that before. However, it still states "interdependencies within CLHEP are allowed under certain conditions". I do believe CLHEP is slightly problematic, others are welcome to investigate. I know Lifeng Sun did a while back, but I thought he gave up (?) > > > - I tried to build the new version against the most recent version of CLHEP, > > 2.1.0.1. To get that version, contact me or do "apt-get source clhep2", > > update the source ( http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/#download ) and > > build the package yourself. > > > > - The Geant4 package was very well constructed from the original packager, > > Kevin B. McCarty. I might have broken some stuff, and misunderstood some > > parts. E.g. the soversion in debian/rules have been a bit of a mystery to > > me. Please fix/improve anything you see that I have done wrong. > > > > - I am in the final 6 months of my PhD at the moment, so I have very little > > time working on this (sadly). I know though that there are quite a few > > people using this package, so if we could be able to release the new version > > it would be appreciated. As soon as the package builds fine I will > > immediately build and release the 64bit versions on our server, and see if I > > can get someone to build the 32bit versions as well. > > Ok fine. I understand what you will not joinable a lot. Do you plan to > change of mail adress after your phd ? No, I will continue with a fellow at CERN. > > > - New Geant4 patch was released last week ( http://geant4.cern.ch/ ), that > > should ideally be incorporated as well. > > What is the version control used by geant4 upstream ? SVN, but there is no public access. See http://hypernews.slac.stanford.edu/HyperNews/geant4/get/installconfig/1382.html > > Bastien > > Cheers, > > > > Yngve >
