Dear Yade users and developers, we are providing pre-built packages for several years, using Launchpad's PPA build-infrastructure. It works fine in most cases (thanks to Canonical!), but we usually have problems due to Yade's high RAM consumption during compilation step. That is why some daily-builds are sometimes outdated.
With the new GCC-4.8 the situation became even more difficult. We are not able to provide packages for amd64-archs (the most popular one) because of constant build failures on build-servers. We cannot influence or choose the server for building, so we can just try one more time and wait for accidentally available build-server with enough amount of RAM. That is why we are trying to migrate the package build infrastructure to our local resources with the kind help of 3SR Laboratory in Grenoble (thanks a lot, guys!), where currently hosted yade-dem.org website, wiki and buildbot. We do reaaly need the help in testing of new daily-packages, which are uploaded already here [1]. To do it, you need to add this repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list, add a PGP-key AA915EEB as a trusted (we will sign all packages, using this key) and install yadedaily (yes, for technical reasons it will be called yadedaily instead of yade-daily as before). The following commands will do it for you: sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://www.yade-dem.org/packages/ precise/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list' wget -O - http://www.yade-dem.org/packages/yadedev_pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install yadedaily If you have another distribution, not Ubuntu Precise, be sure to use the correct name in the first line. After that you can normally start Yade using "yadedaily" or "yadedaily-batch" command. The version numbering has also changed and became more obvious as before. The current one is "1.05.0-28-g5e71fa5~precise-1". It means: 1.05.0 - the last stable version 28 - how many commits after stable release g5e71fa5 - hash of commit, which was built precise - this package is built for Ubuntu Precise 1 - "technical" version of Debian package One more positive side of this migration is the folowing. We can now build packages not only for Ubuntu, but for Debian also. Now the following packages are available: Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (without LinSolv support) Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Debian Unstable Debian Jessie (Debian Testing) Debian Wheezy (some build failures, will be resolved) Please, test the package and give a feedback. If you do not need yadedaily-package any more, just remove the corresponding line in /etc/apt/sources.list. To remove our key from keyring, execute the following commands: sudo apt-key remove AA915EEB sudo apt-get purge yadedaily Gir-repository for packaging stuff is available on GitHub [1]. It should hopefully allow us to easily maintain versions for different Distribution, using powerful git-merge strategy. Each branch corresponds to one distribution e.g. precise, jessie etc. The script for building all of this stuff is here [2[. Ut uses pbuilder to build packages, so all packages are building in a clean environment. For all questions/problems/wishes, please, answer this email. No need to file a bug as this packaging infrastructure is in testing mode now. [1] http://www.yade-dem.org/packages/ [2] https://github.com/yade/yadedaily [3] https://github.com/yade/trunk/blob/master/scripts/ppa/createtar.py Best regards, Anton
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