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 through every single library in the > Sage install and make sure that the correct Debian packages are listed > as dependencies.
PPA is "personal package archive": https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA "Using a Personal Package Archive (PPA), you can distribute software and updates directly to Ubuntu users. Create your source package, upload it and Launchpad will build binaries and then host them in your own apt repository." It looks like we'd need fully debianized packages for their build system, and would need to get everything to work with their buildbots -- and I suspect the Launchpad team would balk at having their buildbots work through Sage builds. On the other hand, making our own checkinstall-style packages and hosting our own repository shouldn't be too difficult. Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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