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.

Fedora and other community efforts

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: Tim Abbott's list of SAGE-related Debian packages. Some of these Debian packages may include some patches for the dependencies that may be required for SAGE that have not yet been pushed upstream (older unmaintained wiki page 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)