[MITgcm-devel] lobbying for package inclusion in Fedora

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 10:01, Chris Hill wrote:
> Hi Ed,
> 
> Sounds yummy... however,
> 
> Do I need to change yum.conf?


Hi Chris,

You can't (yet!) do "yum install netcdf" because the netcdf package
hasn't (yet!) been accepted into any of the standard repositories.  The
purpose of my email (below) was to beg people to post positive netcdf
package experiences (and perhaps do some basic package QA) so that
netcdf will (hopefully!) get included.

The install procedure for now is:

 wget http://mitgcm.org/eh3/packages/FC2/netcdf-3.5.1-0.fdr.7.i386.rpm
 rpm -Uvh netcdf-3.5.1-0.fdr.7.i386.rpm

which has already been done on a number of the "authors" machines.

If you want, you can get a much more feature-full Fedora yum.conf for
your laptop and some excellent HOWTO notes at:

 http://fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

and, for those with even more time, the Fedora package QA process is
described at:

 http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy
 http://www.fedora.us/wiki/QAChecklist

If the netcdf or nco packages get just *two* positive full-QA reviews,
they'll get included in a standard repository and then yum will work.

Ed



> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> > [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 9:33 AM
> > To: MITgcm-devel
> > Subject: [MITgcm-devel] lobbying for package inclusion in Fedora
> > 
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > In an effort to make MITgcm installs easier for the general 
> > public, I'm trying to get NetCDF (and nco) included in a 
> > Fedora package repository. 
> > The main benefit is that, if you're running a recent Red Hat 
> > or Fedora distro, you can do something as simple as:
> > 
> >   [first become root then]
> >   $ yum install netcdf
> > 
> > and, like magic, its there and working nicely.  Eventually, 
> > the package may become part of the standard distro (so it 
> > gets installed with everything else right from the beginning).
> > 
> > But in order to get accepted, people have to show some 
> > interest.  So, if you have a few moments, please go to these 
> > two links:
> > 
> >   https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1874
> >   https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1893
> > 
> > and add some comments in the "Additional Comments" block such as:
> > 
> >  - "the NetCDF [and NCO] packages are very important for my work"
> >  - "I use NetCDF almost daily and would love to see it in Fedora"
> >  - "the RPMs work nicely on my system"
> >  - "NetCDF and NCO packages have been included in Debian-Stable 
> >     for some time now"
> >  - "NetCDF makes the sun shine and the flowers bloom"
> > 
> > OK, skip the last one but you get the general idea...  :-)
> > 
> > And thanks in advance for the help!
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
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