Re: Any input for some talk about usage of Debian in HPC
> The Geant4 and ROOT work I did privately, and right now I don't
> actively work on those ITPs. At least on the ROOT I know they are
> interested, but they have other priorities given that ROOT is
> notoriously hard to package (huge monorepo with external deps,
> complicated build script, modified embedded clang, legacy names like
> "libCore.so" et al). I don't think Geant4 has any man-power to spare,
> and it also has their own packaging challenges (requires huge datasets
> to actually work).
And what about subcontracting the packaging ? The CERN can pour a few euros in this kind of task no ?
>
> It is worth mentioning that CERN's software group for scientific
> software (mainly ROOT, Geant4 and cvmfs) are an entirely different
> department than CERN IT. If they move more machines to Debian I doubt
> we will see upstream packaging as a result, most likely they will just
> incorporate it better in cvmfs.
so cvmfs official packages would be great.
Cheers
Fred
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