New release of Debian ROOT packages - Development Snapshot
Hi ROOT'ers and Debian Scientists,
I have made new packages of ROOT for Debian GNU/Linux unstable ('sid')
on i386. You can get them from
deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
The source package (slightly modifed to the upstream sources) are
available from
deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
The builds are for i386 (32 bit intel-like) and Debian GNU/Linux
unstable. Note, that it should work with Ubuntu unstable too, but see
more below.
About the release: The packages have version number 5.13.05-5. The
packages are built from the sources as checked out from CVS yesterday
(28th of October, 2006). The reason a snapshot was chosen, rather than
the development release (5.13.04) or even the stable release (5.12.00)
is because we're working to get the next ROOT production release
(5.14.00 - due sometime mid-December) in to the official Debian unstable
distribution. Unfortunately, this will not be in time for the next
stable release of Debian (etch - due sometime mid-December). However,
if all goes well, then ROOT will be in the next stable release of Debian
(codename unknown - due sometime 2007). Please see below how _you_ can
help make that happen.
Call for testers: Users are invited to download and install the
packages, and report an problems to me (cholm@nbi.dk). In particular,
I'd like to hear feed-back from PROOF users, XRootd users, and users of
Ubuntu.
Call for builders: If you have Debian GNU/Linux running on some
architecture other than i386, I'd very much like if you could try to
rebuild the packages for your platform, and report back problems to me
(cholm@nbi.dk). In particular, I'd like to hear about builds for amd64,
ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, and similar. If you successfully make these
packages, I'd gladly post them in the repository. Just put them
somewhere I can get at them, and I'll upload them for others to use.
Red Hat Linux packages: At this time, no new RPMs have been built of
ROOT. However, it should be possible to do that, as outlined on
http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/rpm.html
If I have the time one of these days, I'll make RPMs too.
Yours,
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