astronomy July 2013

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Re: [fedora-astronomy] Looking for scisoft src.rpms
by Joseph Wang 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Thanks for the information. For some of the packages, getting the build scripts may be useful. Also, I've made a lot of progress with getting src.rpm for ESO scisoft for mageia, and sergio has been converting them to Fedora. Do you think that what we are doing will help scisoft with its releases? If you can think of anything we should/shouldn't do doing, let us know.

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What's next to package
by Joseph Wang 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Looking at the esosoft astronomy software list, I'd be interested in finding out what people think should be packaged into an RPM next. http://www.eso.org/sci/software/scisoft/Scisoft-contents.html

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Re: [fedora-astronomy] astronomy Digest, Vol 35, Issue 4
by Joseph Wang 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Let me know when you have kapteyn packaged. I took a look at GILDAS and the problem is that it doesn't have a clean open source license. It can be put in a non-free section, but I'd rather prioritize working on "clean" open source packages first. I'll send out an e-mail to GILDAS for clarification. I've also sent out some e-mails to the ESO maintainers to see if they have src.rpm's available. One other thing is that if anyone here has any ideas to make fedora<->mageia (and opensuse) spec files interchangability easier, let me know.

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Looking for scisoft src.rpms
by Joseph Wang 06 Jul '13

06 Jul '13

Hello, I'm working on a project to add astronomy software to the Fedora and Mageia distributions and I'd like to add all of the contents of ESO scisoft to be distributed by those distributions. Do you know where src.rpms for the scisoft are available? Thanks

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RPM packaging for astronomy software
by Joseph Wang 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Hello, I caught your post on www.astrobetter.com about STSCI data. I'm currently involved in a project to package astronomy related RPM's for RPM linux distributions like Mageia and Fedora. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Science_SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG The goal is that by making astronomy packages part of the main distributions we will have less of a problem keeping things updated. By having things as part of a larger project rather than a standalone distribution, it becomes possible to do things like shared build infrastructure. One thing that I could use is some guidance as to which packages are most important to get incorporated. We've already generated packages for IRAF and DS9, but in looking at the large list of ESO scisoft packages, it's not clear which RPM's should be packaged next. If you could give us some guidance as to which packages would be of highest priority, that would be very helpful. My background is theory so I don't have a good sense of which observational packages are more important or less important. In addition, if you could provide links to the SIG wiki pages, that would be very useful. Both Mageia and fedora rely on volunteer efforts so that if we can get more packagers with astronomy backgrounds, this would be useful.

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Re: [fedora-astronomy] astronomy Digest, Vol 35, Issue 3
by Joseph Wang 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

As far as DS9 and pyraf goes there is a spec/source for mageia which should be convertible to fedora http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/ds9/current/ http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/python-stsci/current

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SRPMS for SCISOFT packages
by Joseph Wang 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi there, I'm currently involved in a project to package astronomy related software for RPM based distributions (namely Mageia and Fedora). I'd like to package the ESO Scisoft package so that it is available through the standard Mageia and Fedora distribution channels. I'm wondering if the src.rpm's used to generate the scisoft RPM's are available anywhere. All I need are the spec files and I can do the work to update everything else.

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New fedora iraf RPM
by Joseph Wang 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

I've uploaded set of new fedora iraf RPM to dropbox https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1025783/iraf-2.16-5test.src.rpm https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1025783/x11iraf-2.0-1test.src.rpm This has the debian changes that were posted on the net, and splits out x11iraf from iraf I can try to set up a virtualbox machine to debug the debian issues. What's the easiest way of doing this?

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