sage_bootstrap: System package database with support for PURLs (package URLs)¶

This distribution package passagemath-bootstrap provides:

• a script sage-guess-package-system:

  $ sage-guess-package-system
  homebrew
  

• a script sage-get-system-packages to map PURLs to names of system packages:

  $ sage-get-system-packages gentoo generic/gmp generic/gap
  sci-mathematics/gap
  dev-libs/gmp
  

• a script sage-print-system-package-command to print system package installation commands for given PURLs:

  $ sage-print-system-package-command void --spkg install generic/gmp generic/gap
  xbps-install gmp-devel gmpxx-devel
  
  $ sage-print-system-package-command fedora --spkg --sudo install generic/linbox
  sudo dnf install linbox linbox-devel
  

• a script sage-package to query the system package database:

  $ sage-package properties generic/gmp
  path:                        .../site-packages/sage_root/build/pkgs/gmp
  version_with_patchlevel:     6.3.0
  type:                        standard
  source:                      normal
  trees:                       SAGE_LOCAL
  purl:                        pkg:generic/gmp
  description:                 Library for arbitrary precision arithmetic
  uses_python_package_check:   False
  

• a script sage-spkg-info to print system package information:

  $ sage-spkg-info generic/macaulay2
  ...
  
  $ sage-spkg-info pypi/setuptools
  ...
  

• a Python API defined in sage_bootstrap

The database of packages is included with passagemath-bootstrap and consists of over 600 packages; see https://passagemath.org/docs/latest/html/en/reference/spkg/index.html for a list of the available packages.

10.6.37

passagemath-bootstrap ~= 10.6.37.0

$ pip install passagemath-bootstrap~=10.6.37.0

$ sage -i sage_bootstrap