[CoinBinary] Prototype fedora packages

[Ted Ralphs]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <
paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>   I have a prototype all in one "coin-or" package and prototype split
> all projects in different packages naming them "coinor-*" at
> http://pcpa.fedorapeople.org/coinor
>
>   I would like some feedback before making a formal request
> for inclusion in the fedora distribution.
>
>   Main issues I have are:
>
> o Sub project tarballs include all of their dependencies. The reason
>   probably is to make it self  contained and reduce bug reports
>   due to non matching versions. But I may need to repackage
>   tarballs to have it accepted in Fedora due to data/examples
>   missing license information
>

A while back, we changed the configure scripts so that you could easily
check out and build the projects individually for this exact reason. If you
take just the subfolder Xxx within project Xxx, you can build in that
subfolder and link the resulting library against other already installed
projects. The only caveat is that you have to build them in the right order
(that's what the configure script in the root directory takes care of for
you). A simple script could essentially do the same job. All the relevant
license, documentation, examples, etc. for each project are located in the
subfolder. Would it be sufficient to just take this part of the posted
tarballs? If not, it should be relatively easy to create tarballs without
dependencies and post those also. You are correct for the reasoning for the
current tarballs including all dependencies.


> o Data and examples information is very desirable, to know
>   what could be packaged, but I am afraid they do not have
>   a license (e.g. http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/Data/
>   contents of Data-*.tgz)
>

Yes, that's always been a problem. We discussed it and made an effort to
clean this up some time ago, trying to identify the source for each file
and get the owner to provide a license, but this was a losing game and
didn't go far. Unfortunately, most of the standard test instances that are
out there are unlicensed. I will bring this up again with the board and see
what we can do.


> o I did choose "coinor-*" to match Debian naming, but maybe I
>   should use "coin-or-*", suggestions? :-)
>

I guess I prefer "coin-or" because it then matches the URL.

Ted
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