Re: Packaging scientific datasets for Debian
On 12109 March 1977, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> http://ftp-master.debian.org/wiki/projects/data/>
>> Although it makes the impression that everything is already done, I
>> don't know if that is actually true. Does anyone know about the current
>> state of this effort?
> I don't know. But given that data.debian.org doesn't resolve, I'd
> guess that nothing is set up. The wiki page you reference suggests it
> is an ftpmaster team consensus position, so I cc them now. Maybe
> someone there can chime in.
We are waiting for hardware with enouggh diskspace. This is aboout there
(ftpmaster.d.o replacement).
>> Ideally, we could come up with a mini-policy for dataset packages. It
>> should not be overengineered, but it might cover things like:
>> - package naming, e.g. 'dataset-<meaningful name>'
>> - predictable and common location in the filesystem (maybe it should make
>> it easy for an admin to relocate all packaged datasets to a dedicated storage
>> device)
>> - some grouping by purpose (although many datasets can be used for
>> different things) or type of data (MRI, pictures, sound
>> databases, genome, ...)
> I like all these suggestions. I don't have a strong position on how
> to arrange the data, but my gut feeling is to use a single root under
> which it is grouped by purpose as you suggest, leading to
> /usr/share/data/<group>, for example.
Maybe. But dataset packageswill only be a subset of stuff I think goes
to data.d.o :)
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