biorpms and FC2

[Michael Tiemann]

Thanks!

/me visits http://apt.bea.ki.se/biorpms/

/me notices that the names of all these packages do not follow the
fedora naming guidelines.  Humpf.  Moreover, there's also a comment
about a stuck dependency

        I focus on building for Fedora Core 1. Some packages are
        available for RH8.0 and RH9 as well.  Requires freshrpms.net,
        ATrpms, and Dag repositories.  As I depend heavily on these
        repositories, I will not build for Fedora Core 2 until they do.

This is /precisely/ the kind of blockage I want to help resolve!

Since you just saw my self-intro, you know that I am new to the inside
of the sausage factory that is Fedora, though I am not new to Open
Source (I started writing the GNU C++ compiler in 1987).  If you have
any advice on where I should start my campaign--either with Dag Wieers
and other foundational sites, the biorpm folks, the mailing list, or
whatever--I'd appreciate it.  I'd certainly prefer to make my initial
application of energy a positive, rather than a negative, experience for
all.

Thanks!

M

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 10:10, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 June 2004 05:03, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> > 	* bring GRASS to Fedora (FreeGIS has been funded to do this)
> 
> Excellent.  GRASS plus some good GUI tools and the ability to tie in GPS would 
> fulfil the need for a good mapping/tracking suite, even though GRASS is a 
> little over powered for that job, it has all the tools.
> 
> > 	* bring in the latest and greatest free bioinformatics sw
> 
> There is a bioinformatics repository out there that is pulled in with the 
> ATrpms configuration; http://apt.bea.ki.se/biorpms/ is the location.  R is 
> one of the packages there.  As I don't have that repository enabled in my apt 
> config (I really like using synaptic to manage things, primarily because I 
> can refresh, filter new packages, and see what is the latest and greatest out 
> there easily; then simply selecting the package, hitting install, and 'vroom' 
> there it is.)  While you can do that with 'yum install' you have to first 
> list the packages, filter on new, then remember the names.  It is more 
> convenient when busy to see a package and select it for installation. 
> -- 
> Lamar Owen
> Director of Information Technology
> Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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