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This is to help document the process to get SAGE (http://sagemath.org/), the open-source computer algebra/mathematics framework into Fedora.

Fedora and other community efforts

People interested helping in packaging/reviewing:

Cross-distribution efforts:

On fedora-devel KevinKofler points out that:

One problem will be that they're bundling many third-party components which should
be packaged separately:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/intro.html

So the first step is to track down which of these dependencies are in Fedora
already, whether they need any patches to work with SAGE, whether they are
build-time (BuildRequires) dependencies, run-time (Requires) dependencies or
both, whether they're required or optional and package those which are not in
Fedora yet.

He suggests the following order:

  1. package required build-time dependencies
  2. package required run-time dependencies
  3. package as many optional build-time dependencies as possible
  4. package SAGE itself
  5. package optional run-time dependencies (and decide on a case by case basis whether it makes sense to add them as actual Requires: dependencies to the package or not)

Required components that SAGE ships with: http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/

Optional components that SAGE ships with: http://sagemath.org/packages/optional/

(a manual list with descriptions which may vary somewhat with respect to the above is at http://sagemath.org/links-components.html) (See also: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days6/sprint/debian)

Dependencies (for which there is a separate upstream)

Missing required components

(If you are working on packaging a component or have filed a review request bug, please note it or link to something here.)

Fedora package Upstream Review request / status
[1] EClib Review Request
G95 Not needed, we can use gcc-gfortran instead. [1]
GAP This is large (they claim you need 500M of disk)
[2] Givaro Review Request
JsMath
[3] Lcalc Review Request
[4] Linbox Review Request
NetworkX Review Request
[5] PolyBoRi Review Request
[6] python-ZConfig Review Request
[7] python-zc-lockfile Review Request
[8] python-zdaemon Review Request
[9] python-ZODB3 Review Request
[10] python-zope-event Review Request
[11] python-zope-proxy Review Request
[12] python-zope-testing Review Request
[13] Qd Review Request [may removed from SAGE soon]
Singular I (konradm) started working on this but haven't gotten very far.
[14] Sympow Review Request
ghmm, jinja, jmol, sphinx, pynac, pygments [recently added to SAGE, need to check status]

Completed (reviewed and built) required components

Fedora package Upstream Review request / status Version in SAGE
cddlib Cddlib Review Request Completed, in Fedora 094b.p3
cudd CUDD Review Request Completed, in Fedora
python-cvxopt CVXOPT Review Request Completed, in Fedora 0.9.p7
flint Flint Review Request Completed, in Fedora flint-1.0.21.p0
libfpll FpLLL Review Request Completed, in Fedora 2.1.6-20071129.p5
genus2reduction Genus2reduction Review Request Completed, in Fedora genus2reduction-0.3.p4
gfan Gfan Review Request Completed, in Fedora 0.3.p4
gmp-ecm GMP-ECM Review Request completed, in Fedora 4.2.2.p1.fake
iml IML Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.0.1.p11
m4ri M4RI Review Request complete, in Fedora 20080909
mpfi MPFI Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.3.4-cvs20071125.p7
palp PALP Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.1.p1
python-crypto PyCrypto Already packaged in Fedora (python-crypto) 2.0.1.p2
python-transaction python-transaction Review Request Completed, in Fedora
python-zope-filesystem Review Request Completed, in Fedora
python-zope-interface python-zope-interface
symmetrica Symmetrica Review Request Completed, in Fedora 2.0.p2
sympy Sympy Review Request Completed, in Fedora 0.6.3.p0
scipy Weave Already in scipy. 0.4.9

Packages for which SAGE is upstream

Latest versions found in http://www.sagemath.org/packages/standard/

  • sage
  • sage_scripts
  • rubiks
  • doc
  • eclib
  • examples
  • extcode
  • elliptic_curves, conway_polynomials, graphs, polytopes_db (ZoDB databases used internally by SAGE)
  • flintqs (upstream because original upstream deprecated it)

References

  1. From upstream's readme.txt: "If you're using Fortran on a platform without g95 binaries included with Sage, e.g., Itanium, you must use a system-wide gfortran.". So they support gfortran and even system-wide installations of it.