2013/1/17 Vedran Miletić rivanvx@gmail.com:

2013/1/17 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade@gmail.com:

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I followed the procedures at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fed... and after a reboot, updated my sagemath x86_64 repository.

I had a few f15 plexus&maven packages that appeared to cause upgrade problems as well as ffmpeg-libs, but this was enough for me to convert a f17 computer to f18:

$ sudo yum erase sagemath $ sudo yum erase plexus-appserver plexus-runtime-builder plexus-maven-plugin maven-shared plexus-xmlrpc ffmpeg-libs $ sudo yum update yum $ sudo yum clean all $ sudo yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync $ sudo rpm --rebuilddb

If you previously had a /etc/yum.repos.d/sagemath-f17.repo, please now use http://pcpa.fedorapeople.org/sagemath/sagemath-f18.repo

Great stuff. Thank you for your effort.

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There is a Singular update, but the same build should be available as an update in a few days https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Singular-3.1.5-3.fc18 and I just opened a bug report to update f18 to the same numpy in rawhide https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896311

In general, how stable is this? Are there tests to verify this is working correctly?

This is a bit outdated and was generated from the f17 build: http://pcpa.fedorapeople.org/sagemath/test.log but most of the failures should still happen.

I ask because I'm planning to mention using sagemath on Fedora as an alternative to Wolfram Mathematica to some people on our university, and I wouldn't mind using stock sagemath instead of packaged one for the time being, until packaged one gets wider testing.

For the time being I would suggest using the upstream build, or something like http://aleph.sagemath.org or http://www.sagenb.org

My goal is to have the package fully reliable. Right now it is passing roughly 90% of the tests. Most failures are numerical noise, but there are some serious issues that need to be fixed.

I'm very grateful for your effort, and having packaged sagemath will definitely make deployment and updates easier in the long term, but leaving a good initial impression is really important when people are exposed to free software.

Regards, Vedran

Thanks, Paulo