Re: [bug-gnuastro] [patch] add openSUSE/SLES instructions

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear Andreas,

Thank you very much, this is great! I really appreciate it. I was really 
happy to see that Gnuastro is packaged in OpenSUSE also.

I understand that the `--build-deps-only' option will only build the 
dependencies based on the information that is in the repository. This is 
an interesting solution.

It would be good if for `zypper', we follow the same format that we have 
done for the other package managers: provide the command to install all 
the dependencies, not Gnuastro itself. In this way, when a dependency is 
added (or possibly removed), we can easily correct the respective 
command for all the package managers. Therefore, we don't have to ask 
users of a package manager to wait until the change has been propagated 
there.

In this section, during the introduction text, we have explained that 
Gnuastro is already packaged in some package managers (for example 
OpenSUSE, Debian, Homebrew), but we haven't actually mentioned them there.

Your patch was a good demonstration that its good to also give a link to 
Gnuastro's page on the package managers. Then the readers can check and 
see that if it is indeed the most recent version, and if so, they don't 
have to build from the tarball.

So if you could kindly correct the command to describe installing the 
dependencies, I will gratefully merge it into the main repo.

For those package managers that have packaged Gnuastro, I will add a 
line after the command with a link to Gnuastro's page on the respective 
repo. You can do this already for `zypper' with the new patch.

Thank you very much,
Mohammad

On 8/12/18 6:09 PM, Andreas Stieger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this patch adds pointers to the installation of gnuastro build
> dependencies on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, in addition
> of the distribution package recently created.
>
> Andreas