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Bug 522740

Summary: Some ebuilds for meteorology libraries and applications.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: thssld
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: portage.tar.xz

Description thssld 2014-09-13 16:29:50 UTC
Created attachment 384680 [details]
portage.tar.xz

Here is some ebuilds for meteorology.

Including following packages verified to work:
sci-libs/g2clib : library for reading/writing GRIB2 files, used by wgrib2, GrADS
sci-libs/gadap : library for reading/writing OPeNDAP station data, used by GrADS 
sci-libs/gctpc : library for geolocation routines, used by wgrib2
sci-libs/esmf : library for building numerical meteorology models, used by NCL (not included)

sci-geosciences/wgrib : application that reads/writes/modifies a GRIB(1) file
sci-geosciences/wgrib2 : application that reads/writes/modifies a GRIB2 file
  aux_progs are not built, ipolates is not built because of license issue of FFT code.
sci-geosciences/grib2ctl : script that creates ctl files for GrADS, not included in GrADS, but necessary to handle GRIB files in GrADS
sci-geosciences/g2ctl : same as above but works on a GRIB2 file

x11-libs/libsx : this is a library required to build GrADS

sci-geosciences/grads : an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data.

This is my first ebuild commit, please tell my where I can improve.
Comment 1 Yixun Lan archtester gentoo-dev 2014-09-14 14:40:56 UTC
I'd suggest you publish your ebuilds via an overlay (probably github.com would be a good place), and see if you can attract any user/dev.

btw, "open one bug per ebuild" would be good scheme, you can use this bug for tracker (eg. bug #471102) if you like..
Comment 2 thssld 2014-09-14 16:32:46 UTC
I'm not familiar with overlays, are there any suitable overlays for geo-science / meteorology?

I will try to contact some users.
Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-09-14 22:53:50 UTC
Comment on attachment 384680 [details]
portage.tar.xz

What is needed is a separate bug report per package (i.e. [category/package]). Dumping everything in a single bug report is a sure way to a very long lifetime of the bug report with many comments and lots of side-tracking. Filing separate bug reports ensure that some of the ebuilds get included in the tree more easily and earlier.
Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-09-14 22:54:15 UTC
Please file separate bug reports for each package.