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This is to help document the process to get SageMath (also colloquially called Sage; SAGE is a retired name) (http://www.sagemath.org/), the open-source computer algebra/mathematics framework into Fedora.

People

People interested helping in packaging/reviewing:

Sagemath Fedora package

The package "sagemath" is now available for Fedora 18 or newer.

Name Upstream Review Request Status
sagemath sagemath #877651
Pass pass

Dependencies (for which there is a separate upstream)

SageMath calls the packages they integrate an "spkg" (Sage package). Since the goal of the project is to integrate as many third-party products as possible, dependencies aren't always updated along with 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.)

Name Upstream Review Request Status
lrcalc lrcalc #909510 Build Requires
coin-or-CoinUtils CoinUtils #894585 Build Requires
coin-or-Osi Osi #894586 Build Requires
coin-or-Clp Clp #894587 Build Requires
coin-or-Cgl Cgl #894588 Build Requires
coin-or-Cbc Cbc #894597 Build Requires
fes fes #914936 (Optional) Build Requires

Packages that need changes to work with sagemath

Fedora package Upstream Request for Enhancement / status

Completed (reviewed and built) required components

Fedora package Upstream Review request / status Version in SAGE
cddlib Cddlib Review Request Completed, in Fedora 094f.p11
cliquer Cliquer Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.2.p11
cudd CUDD Review Request Completed, in Fedora
eclib EClib Review Request Completed, in Fedora
givaro Givaro Review Request Completed, in Fedora
python-networkx NetworkX Review Request Complete, in Fedora 1.6
python-cvxopt CVXOPT Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.1.5
flint Flint Review Request Completed, in Fedora flint-1.5.2.p2
libfpll FpLLL Review Request Completed, in Fedora 3.0.12.p2
genus2reduction Genus2reduction Review Request Completed, in Fedora genus2reduction-0.3.p8
gfan Gfan Review Request Completed, in Fedora 0.4plus.p3
ghmm GHMM Review Request Complete, in Fedora
gmp-ecm GMP-ECM Review Request completed, in Fedora 6.3.p8
iml IML Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.0.1.p14
jmol Jmol Already in Fedora: 11.6-8.10506svn 12.3.27.p3
L-function L-function Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.23.p10
linbox Linbox Review Request Completed, in Fedora
m4ri M4RI Review Request complete, in Fedora 20120613
mpfi MPFI Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.5.1
palp PALP Review Request Completed, in Fedora 2.1.p0
pynac pynac Review Request Completed, Fedora 0.2.5
python-crypto PyCrypto Already packaged in Fedora (python-crypto) 2.1.0
python-polybori PolyBoRi Review Request Complete, in Fedora 0.8.2
python-ZODB3 python-ZODB3 Review Request Complete, in Fedora
surf Surf Review Request Completed, in Fedora 1.1.0
symmetrica Symmetrica Review Request Completed, in Fedora 2.0.p7
sympy Sympy Review Request Completed, in Fedora 0.7.1.p0
scipy Weave Already in scipy. 0.9.p1
sympow Sympow Review Request Complete, in Fedora 1.018.1.p11

Packages for which SAGE is upstream

Latest versions found in https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/build/pkgs that may be worth packaging as separate SRPMS or different subpackages:

sage could be named python-sagemath for %{python_sitearch}/sage contents but may not be fully functional without a few "system overrides" in $SAGE_ROOT/site-packages
sage_scripts the main sagemath package requiring all python modules
rubiks there are 3 solvers, but only 2 with functional upstream link, therefore should use sagemath spkg
doc can be made optional in a sagemath-doc package for users that would prefer to access documentation from elsewhere or are good enough with the python docstrings
extcode interfaces to other systems or customizations, could/should be made an optional, but a very small package
notebook %{python_sitearch}/sagenb contents, needs some testing, but may be useful if one wants only the command line interface
elliptic_curves, conway_polynomials, graphs, polytopes_db ZoDB databases used internally by SAGE
flintqs spkg because original upstream deprecated it

Cross-distribution efforts

Historical discussion

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)

A wiki for included SageMath packages is at https://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg. (See also: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days6/sprint/debian)