Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Stefan Heim <[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:03:50 +0100

Hi,

On Monday 12 March 2007 18:46, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Before we go down this path:
>
> Has anyone made a HowTo for creating RedHat SRPMs for EPICS BASE R3.14.9
> installation?  A Debian/Umbuntu installer would also be interesting.

I have started to set up a small collection of EPICS Debian packages in August 
2006 in order to ease the maintenance of my SoftIOCs. The base version I 
started out with at the time was 3.14.8.2. For some of the packages I needed, 
it has been quite some hassle to make the Debian build system get along well 
together with them, e.g., some EPICS extensions happily assume they are going 
to be installed in the same place they are built in, ... [long list of 
packaging issues available on request ;-)]. In addition, EPICS base 3.14.8.2 
insisted on linking its exectuables by supplying some
-Wl,rpath,/path/to/buildplace/of/lib option to the linker; I gratefully 
acknowledge this has been changed with 3.14.9.

After the release of 3.14.9 I updated the base package and went through all 
the other packages and updated them to their respective current upstream 
releases as well.

Today I have these packages:

epics-base
epics-extensions-config
epics-extensions-configure
epics-extensions-ezca
epics-extensions-msi
epics-extensions-medm
epics-extensions-sdds
epics-extensions-striptool
epics-extensions-gateway
epics-extensions-caoctave
epics-extensions-dm2k
epics-extensions-alh
epics-support-sequencer
epics-support-sscan
epics-support-gensub
epics-support-calc
epics-support-asyn
epics-support-motor
epics-support-streamdevice

On my TODO list I also have

epics-extensions-edm
epics-extensions-channel-archiver

Up to now I've been using these packages solely for my own purposes. With all 
the work it has been to set them up, I thought I would maybe make them 
publicly available one day and had already started to figure out ways to do 
so here at BESSY. Since I'm currently on vacation until March 28th and will 
probably be somewhat busy afterwards, this might still not happen this month.

> Also, interesting our EPICS LiveCDs which we have done here for Umbuntu.

I still have to take a look at these.

-Stefan

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System