RE: RPM packages for EPICS

[Abdalla Ahmad via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hello Yong

Our RPM packages have been used in the machine control system and most of the beamline control as well, except for galil and area detector in which I built only core and support. Most of synapps components as well as drivers like S7PLC have been RPM-packaged.

I was planning to publish the project on GitHub but could not find time for that because the SPEC files need some refactoring. Once I have something ready I will post to Tech-Talk. If you want separate RPM packages, let me know what modules do you want so I can send you the packages to try.

Best Regards,
Abdalla.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:04 PM
To: Hu, Yong <yhu at bnl.gov>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: RPM packages for EPICS

On 04/21, Hu, Yong via Tech-talk wrote:
> Has any facility built, smoothly deployed and happily used RPM packages for EPICS installation of the base and popular support modules (seq, asyn, motor, streamDevice, etc.)? Please share your repositories (or building rules / specs) and your experience. Thank you!

My two cents would be to use pkgsrc

  https://www.pkgsrc.org/

which could provide packages for various UNIX-like OSes including RHEL, Debian, macOS, etc.  The packages would not be installed to the system locations on those OSes (e.g., /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.), but the packages would be consistent across all the supported OSes.

Lewis