NOTE: these are the Debian PACKAGE MAINTAINER pages! If you are looking for USER instructions to install LSCSoft on Debian, please visit https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/repositories.html#debian

LSCsoft@Debian packaging policy

-- ReinhardPrix - 06 Nov 2008: The following general guidelines for packaging were proposed on DASWG+LSCDebian on Oct 27, 2008, and adopted with 7 positive/neutral votes, and no objection

1. The LSCsoft packages and versions to Debianize are given in the table https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/repositories.html
2. Debianized LSCsoft packages shall install into the same location as the corresponding CentOS5 packages: https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/software/centos/5/
3. Dependencies should (as far as possible) refer to the same versions as used in the CentOS5 package, eg. python2.4 instead of python2.5
4. 3rd party Software shall be installed either into system-paths or into the LSCsoft location. Obviously, if using the native Debian-package, no re-packaging should be done, but if a different version has to be used (eg root-system-5.20), the system path might still be preferrable ... [no strong opinion here]
5. if there are good arguments in favor of changing any of these install-paths, versions, dependencies etc, they should be brought forward to DASWG and apply to both CentOS5 and Debian, in order for 1)+2) not to be violated.

This is designed with the main priority of a uniform installation of LSCsoft across different clusters, irrespective of their underlying distribution. A cluster-user should NOT have to worry about unneccessary differences in installation.

-- ReinhardPrix - 06 Nov 2008: Proposed Amendmend 1: a reasonable exception to 2. is that copyright-notice and changelogs should go into /usr/share/doc.

LSCsoft@Lenny Repositories:

Local apt-repositories (browse packages). To install, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

• for 'production' versions of the LSCsoft stack:
  deb http://n0.aei.uni-hannover.de/debian/ lenny contrib
• for the 'proposes/testing' versions of the LSCsoft stack:
  deb http://n0.aei.uni-hannover.de/debian/ lenny-proposed contrib

The 'official' release repository is at UWM: deb http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/software/debian/  lenny contrib

The source-packages can be installed by using deb-src instead of deb in the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

The corresponding CentOS5 packages are found here: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/software/centos/5/

Status of packaging of LSC Software for Debian Lenny

The LSC software stack to be packaged is described here: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/repositories.html

LSCSOFT Software	Source version	Production	Proposed/Testing	Packages	Maintainer
FrameL	8.04-3	8.04-3lscsoft2		libframe0, libframe-*	Kipp Cannon/Steffen Grunewald
MetaIO	8.2	8.2-3lscsoft3		libmetaio1, libmetaio-*	Kipp Cannon/Steffen Grunewald
MetaIO7	7.2	7.2-5lscsoft1		libmetaio0	Kipp Cannon/Steffen Grunewald
User Environment Scripts	1.13	1.13-3lscsoft3		lscsoft-user-env	Miroslav Shaltev
LAL	6.0.2	6.0.1-1lscsoft1	6.1-lscsoft1	lal, lal-dev	Steffen Grunewald
LALAPPS	6.0	6.0.1lscsoft1	6.1-lscsoft1	lalapps	Steffen Grunewald
GLUE	1.24	1.23-2lscsoft1		python-glue	Steffen Grunewald
Framecpp	1.14.0	1.12.2-lscsoft3	1.14.0-lscsoft1	framecpp, framecpp-dev	Miroslav Shaltev
ROOT - CERN	5.22.00	5.20.00-lscsoft7		root-cern	Miroslav Shaltev
DOL	0.6.0	0.6.0-lscsoft1	0.6.0-lscsoft3	dol	Miroslav Shaltev
GDS	2.13.1
pyRXP	1.13	1.13-6		python-pyrxp	Steffen Grunewald
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Debian specific packages

LSCSOFT Software	Source version	Production	Proposed/Testing	Packages	Maintainer
lscsoft-archive-keyring		2008.11.28-1		lscsoft-archive-keyring	Reinhard Prix / Steffen Grunewald
lscsoft-metapackages		1.0		lscsoft-all, lscsoft-core, lscsoft-external	Xavier Amador
GSL	1.11	gsl_1.11+dfsg-1~bpo40+1 (Etch only)		libgsl0ldbl, libgsl0-*, gsl-bin	Miroslav Shaltev/Steffen Grunewald
LDR					Scott Koranda
LDG/grid-ssh	4.2.1	4.2.1		gsi-openssh	Henning Fehrmann
pyLAL				python-pylal	Steffen Grunewald
spr	07.12.01	7.12.01-1	3.3.1-2	spr	Miroslav Shaltev

Open issues: Please use the issue tracker to report problems or suggest other changes.

Debian Lenny native packages of 3rd party software used/required by LSCSOFT:

Software	Lenny packages
FFTW3	libfftw3-dev (3.1.2-3.1)
Python-Numarray	python-numarray (1.5.2-4)
Python-Matplotlib	python-matplotlib (0.98.1-1)
SQLObject	python-sqlobject (0.10.2-1)
cfitsIO	libcfitsio3*
Python-Numpy	python-numpy (1.1.0)
Python-Scipy	python-scipy (0.6.0)
Python-Pysqlite2	python-pysqlite2 (2.4.1)
R	r-base-* (2.7.1)

Interesting/useful links

• For searching through the official Debian package list, use http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
• The list of official CentOS5 packages can be found under http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/
• New package-maintainer's guide: html or pdf
• Steffen's original list of packages for Debian: http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/debian/.