Re: ROOT and repositories

Hi,

the packages offered by the distributions are not provided by the ROOT team (and by the way the ROOT team is not just at CERN :-)

We, the ROOT team, generally have two options: A: encourage other people to regularly provide new packages for the most common distros (Debian being definitely one of them) B: discourage the use of distro packages because they are by definition out of date.

I finally ended up where most of my colleagues arrived a long while ago: going for option B. We have seen very enthusiastic volunteers building amazing distro packages and making sure they get uploaded - all of which takes a fair amount of time. But we saw each of them only *once*. Nobody has managed, for any distro, to keep it up for more than one release.

Summary: please ignore the utterly out of date packages that are available in Debian, and just download the source, untar, configure && make. That takes minutes and it will continue to work for the next years.

Maybe Debian should simply remove the ROOT packages. Could you try to get that arranged?

Cheers, Axel.

Cedric Sodhi wrote on 03/29/2010 05:28 PM:
> Hello, after experiencing just the same error
>
> (German:) http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=118970
>
> I wondered how readily ROOT gets updates in the variety of repositories
> of Linux distributions. I know perfectly well that the first source for
> getting just about any program should be the vendor of the program
> ittself, but I also pretty much appreciate the convenience of dedicated
> repositories and trouble-free installation.
>
> Is there anyone at CERN who monitors regular updates in the repositories
> (Ubuntu, it is for me)? Is there any reason for me to hope that it will
> get an appropriate update anytime soon?
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 17:43:56 CEST