SIGs/SciTech/SAGE

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

People interested helping in packaging/reviewing:

• Rex Dieter
• Alex Lancaster
• Manuel Wolfshant
• Kevin Kofler
• Neal Becker
• Conrad Meyer
• ...add your name here...

Cross-distribution efforts:

• Debian: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE
• PcLinuxOS: http://www.mypclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=1509.msg13532#msg13532

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.)

• Cddlib Review Request
• CUDD Review Request
• CVXOPT Review Request
• EClib Review Request
• Flint Review Request
• G95 Not needed, we can use gcc-gfortran instead.
• GAP This is large (they claim you need 500M of disk)
• Genus2reduction Review Request
• Gfan Review Request
• Givaro Review Request
• JsMath
• Lcalc Review Request
• Linbox Review Request
• NetworkX Review Request
• PolyBoRi Review Request
• python-transaction Review Request
• python-ZConfig Review Request
• python-zc-lockfile Review Request
• python-zdaemon Review Request
• python-ZODB3 Review Request
• python-zope-event Review Request
• python-zope-proxy Review Request
• python-zope-testing Review Request
• Qd Review Request [may removed from SAGE soon]
• Singular I'm also working on this (konradm) and some deps.
• Sympow Review Request
• ghmm, jinja, jmol, sphinx, pynac, pygments [recently added to SAGE, need to check status]

Completed (reviewed and built) required components

• FpLLL Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• GMP-ECM Review Request completed, in Fedora
• IML Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• M4RI Review Request complete, in Fedora
• MPFI Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• PALP Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• PyCrypto Already packaged in Fedora (python-crypto).
• python-zope-filesystem Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• python-zope-interface
• Symmetrica Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• Sympy Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• Weave Already in scipy.

Packages for which SAGE is upstream

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

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