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From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: Stefan Gerlach <gerlach@mbi-berlin.de>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: hosting binary packages
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17429.27366.244748.10847@hp2.network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603101227.10397.gerlach@mbi-berlin.de>

Stefan Gerlach writes:
 > I want to ask if there is an official place where binary packages of gsl for 
 > different distributions can be found. I found some private sites with various 
 > gsl packages but that's not very convenient.

Hello,

Generally I am not a great believer in distributing binaries by ftp
from a security viewpoint--it is better for distributors to do that,
as a tested part of their distribution, or for people to compile from
source (which is not too difficult in the case of GSL).

 > I could provide binary package for more than a dozen distributions that have 
 > no or old gsl packages. Maybe it is possible to set up a sourceforge project 
 > to host binary gsl packages.

If the distributions are minor ones, I wouldn't think it's worth it to
be honest.  If there are some major distributions which are not
including it or have stopped maybe I can ask them why or ask them to
add it.  Last time I checked, it was included in RHEL/Fedora, SUSE,
Mandriva and Debian.

-- 
Brian Gough

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-13 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10 11:27 Stefan Gerlach
2006-03-13 12:51 ` Brian Gough [this message]
2006-03-13 14:31   ` Robert G. Brown
2006-03-13 14:31   ` Stefan Gerlach
2006-03-13 15:00     ` Jeff Spirko
2006-03-14  3:05     ` Dirk Eddelbuettel
2006-03-14 15:17     ` Brian Gough
2006-03-14 15:45       ` Stefan Gerlach

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