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Hi everyone, |
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I have created an ebuild for the ftools from heasarc, used |
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for inspecting and manipulating astronomical FITS files[1]. |
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As those are widely used in the astronomical community, |
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I think they would make a great addition to Gentoo. |
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Unfortunately, the attached ebuild has several problems. |
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1.) LICENSE="UNKOWN": Does anyone know what the |
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correct license is? |
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2.) SRC_URI: What should it be set to? Currently, you will |
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have to download the tarball yourself from [2], choose only |
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the "General-Use FTOOLS", nothing else. |
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3.) The ebuild only works with "General-Use FTOOLS", |
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no XSpec. Ideally there would be a USE="xspec", but |
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how to do that. I don't use XSpec, so wont investigate |
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further for now. Maybe the ebuild could auto-detect what |
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the user downloaded? |
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4.) DESTDIR: The src_install() function does an |
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"addwrite /usr/heasoft-6.6.2" to let the heasoft tools |
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make the install. Better would be for them to support |
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the $DESTDIR variable, but I have tried and failed. |
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Maybe it's ok? |
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5.) Reinstall: Due to the previous item, you have to |
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"emerge -C ftools" before reinstalling. Can that be |
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automated? Currently, it just fails, telling you to unmerge. |
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6.) Sourcing "$HEADAS/headas-init.sh" is still needed to |
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be done by the user. |
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Any help is much appreciated. |
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Greetings, |
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Henry |
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[1] http://heasarc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/ftools/ftools_menu.html |
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[2] http://heasarc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html |
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