[AG-TECH] AG 3.0 and Gentoo?

[Colin Macdonald]

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Rhys Hawkins wrote:

> There are gentoo ebuilds here:
>  http://www.agcentral.org/downloads/GentooAGTK
>
> This is for an AGTK CVS snapshot on around the 20th April. I've run
> out of time and won't get ebuilds done for the AG3 release proper
> until after the AccessGrid Retreat now.
>
> With the CVS snapshot, you can connect to the actual 3.0 servers.
> However these ebuilds should be considered an early testing release,
> which is why I haven't announced more widely.

Looks good!  I'll be eagerly awaiting the 3.0 ebuilds.

I took a brief look at them today.  What is the point of having 
agrat and agvic ebuilds?  rat 4.2.5 is in portage already and we 
could poke at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81890 to get 
vic accepted too.  Does AG3 require particular versions or are 
patches applied that aren't in the upstream version?

Cheers,
Colin

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Colin Macdonald
Graduate Student, Dept. of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
mail: cbm[at]sfu[dot]ca, phone: 604.268.6689 (office)