[Scitech] Fedora sagemath 5.0.rc0 - work in progress

[Jerry James]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
<paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:
>  In Mandriva I packaged gap packages from the
> ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap4/tar.bz2/packages-2009_02_18-11_42_UTC.tar.bz2
> tarball and did not update it anymore...
>
>  You may consider packaging contents from the latest packages tarball, e.g.
> ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap4/tar.bz2/packages-2012_02_03-16_59_UTC.tar.bz2

We can't do that.  Some of the packages in that tarball have license
issues, or depend on external software with license issues.  We have
to take them one by one for auditing purposes.

>  But should be better to follow the model you are using, and at least
> at first, package only what sagemath "absolutely" needs, that should
> be these packages (the missing ones that cause sage to fail to start):

Good, we agree. :-)

> ctbllib
> sonata
> guava
> factint
> gapdoc
> grape
> design
> toric
> laguna
> braid
>
> these should also be well maintained packages, and should all be
> in the "approved" list of gap packages.

That looks like a good initial list to me.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/