Hi Ole,
Thanks for your interest in doing this. However, I should point out one thing: Gadget2 is configured for specific types of simulation through a bunch of compile-time options, i.e. one typically creates a new executable for each simulation one wants to do. I’m afraid, this severely limits the utility of any precompiled binary...
On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Ole Streicher <debian-devel_at_liska.ath.cx> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am currently preparing a Debian package for gadget2 [1], and I have a few qestions:
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> There are basically two homepages:
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> http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/gadget/
> http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/gadget/
>
> which seem quite similar. However, the first one offers "gadget-2.0.7.tar.gz" (and an n-genic.tar.gz IC code), but the second one just a "gadget2.tar.gz" (and no iC-code). Which one is the recent one?
>
Both are identical. (The second file is a symbolic link to the version 2.0.7)
> Second question is about HDF-5. I could compile the code with the Debian version of hdf5 (1.8.8) when I apply the -DH5_USE_16_API flag. Is this OK or will it run into problems?
This would be OK.
>
> Finally, the example ICs that come with the code seem to be a problem for the packaging: Debian requires that everything is built from the sources, but the source of these files seems to be not distributed with the package, right? Is there a way to re-generate them somehow? Otherwise, I would need to leave them out, which would make it much harder for a beginner to start.
Regenerating these files would require to include various initial conditions codes as well. This is not readily possible.
Regards,
Volker
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> The packaging is done in a git repository [2]. If you have any hints or comments regarding the packaging, please let me know.
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> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/804074
> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/gadget2.git
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Received on 2015-11-06 20:27:22