Package mg5amcnlo dependencies

[matthewfeickert]

As noted in mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo#156 mg5amcnlo vendors lots of software without including their licenses and also has multiple external dependencies.

All of these would need to be packaged on conda-forge to realistically package mg5amcnlo.

• conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/mg5amcnlo-feedstock
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Vendored code

• CutTools
  • website: https://www.ugr.es/~pittau/CutTools/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/cuttools-feedstock
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  • Requires:
    • QCDLoop (Fortran version)
    • avh (through OneLOop)
    • mpfun90
    • Currently has no license (emailed Roberto to ask him to add a license on 2025-02-03)
• DiscreteSampler
  • source: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/blob/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/DiscreteSampler/ (I don't think it exists anywhere else)
• IREGI
  • source: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/tree/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/IREGI/src (I don't think it exists anywhere else)
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/iregi-feedstock
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• StdHEP
  • source: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/tree/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/StdHEP (I don't think it exists anywhere else)
• SudGen
  • source: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/tree/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/SudGen (I don't think it exists anywhere else)
• eepdfgrid
  • source: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/tree/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/eepdfgrid (I don't think it exists anywhere else)
• ply (though mg5amcnlo modifies it for unknown reasons: https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/mg5amcnlo/commits/55a291dc8def762938a964cc1343c6d76af5b843/vendor/ply)
  • website: https://www.dabeaz.com/ply/index.html
  • GitHub: https://github.com/dabeaz/ply
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/ply-feedstock/
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• OneLOop
  • website: https://helac-phegas.web.cern.ch/OneLOop.html
  • Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hameren/oneloop/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/oneloop-feedstock
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External dependencies

From https://github.com/mg5amcnlo/HEPToolsInstallers:

• COLLIER
  • website: https://collier.hepforge.org/
  • code releases: https://collier.hepforge.org/downloads/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/collier-feedstock
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• EMELA
  • GitHub: https://github.com/gstagnit/eMELA/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/emela-feedstock
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• ginac_mg5_interface
• MadAnalysis5
  • GitHub: https://github.com/MadAnalysis/madanalysis5
• NKLO_TOOLS
• Ninja (not the build tool)
  • website: https://ninja.hepforge.org/
  • GitHub: https://github.com/peraro/ninja
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/ninja-hep-ph-feedstock
  • (use of libquadmath disallows macOS)
  • Requies:
    • OneLOop
    • LoopTools
• RIVET
  • website: https://rivet.hepforge.org/
  • GitLab: https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/rivet
  • Requires:
    • HepMC3
    • FastJet
    • fjcontrib
    • HDF5
    • HighFive
    • YODA
    • Cython
    • pyyaml
    • requests
    • matplotlib
    • tqdm
• contur
  • GitLab: https://gitlab.com/hepcedar/contur
• dragon
  • GitHub: https://github.com/cosmicrays/DRAGON
• dragon data
  • source: http://madgraph.phys.ucl.ac.be/Downloads/maddm/dragon_input_from_galprop.zip
• fitsio
  • source: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/
  • GitHub: https://github.com/esheldon/fitsio
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/fitsio-feedstock
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• gsl
  • website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/gsl-feedstock
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Dependencies of dependencies

• FF
  • website: https://www.nikhef.nl/~form/maindir/others/ff/ff.html
  • GitHub: https://github.com/hep-packaging-coordination/ff
  • Decoupling FF #4
  • Blocked by:
    • Acquire approval for open source license from van Oldenborgh estate ff#4
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/ff-feedstock
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• LoopTools
  • website: https://feynarts.de/looptools/
  • Requires: FF
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/looptools-feedstock
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• YODA
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/yoda-feedstock/
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• QCDLoop (Fortran version named ql)
  • website: https://qcdloop.fnal.gov/
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/qcdloop-fortran-feedstock
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  • Requires:
    • FF
    • Currently has no license (on 2025-02-03 got permission to license as MIT)
• QCDLoop (C++ version)
  • website: https://qcdloop.web.cern.ch/
  • GitHub: https://github.com/scarrazza/qcdloop
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/qcdloop-feedstock
  • (use of libquadmath disallows macOS)
• MPFUN90
  • website: https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbsoftware/ (doesn't have a MPFUN90 distribution on it)
  • GitHub: https://github.com/APN-Pucky/mpfun90
  • conda-forge: https://github.com/conda-forge/mpfun90-feedstock
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[APN-Pucky]

FYI, gentoo science has cuttools split of for openloops, mcfm, ... https://github.com/gentoo/sci/blob/master/sci-physics/cuttools/cuttools-1.9.3-r1.ebuild
It is a bit of a mess to get unbundle included libraries. Another similar hep packaging project to this is https://github.com/andriish/HEPrpms if you need a reference for some package.

[APN-Pucky]

I am curious how you want to get madgraph to run the first initial required run? Is it something that conda supports?

MadGraph needs to generate Template/LO/Source/make_opts which is done
automatically at startup. This needs to be done during setup (or with
root access)

from https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=madgraph and gentoo does something similar https://github.com/gentoo/sci/blob/20a07b35603efba2ab1ac0310e4604506f51ed91/sci-physics/madgraph5/madgraph5-3.5.3.ebuild#L76 or is this no longer needed (there was some effort to make madgraph more packaging friendly, but i don't know of the outcome)

[matthewfeickert]

I am curious how you want to get madgraph to run the first initial required run? Is it something that conda supports?

MadGraph needs to generate Template/LO/Source/make_opts which is done
automatically at startup. This needs to be done during setup (or with
root access)

from https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=madgraph

@APN-Pucky When I containerized it a few years ago (https://github.com/scailfin/MadGraph5_aMC-NLO) I just did

echo "exit" | mg5_aMC

and while I haven't thought about this much I would assume that in the build stage for conda-forge I would just make sure that the required directory structure existed under $PREFIX such that $PREFIX/MG5_aMC/bin/mg5_aMC existed (and would be symlinked to $PREFIX/bin/mg5_aMC) and then just do

echo "exit" | $PREFIX/bin/mg5_aMC

so that the $PREFIX/MG5_aMC/Template/ directory structure existed. conda-build knows how to go through, discover, and correct all the paths of everything under $PREFIX so you don't have to manually do that to make sure that the paths in Template/LO/Source/make_opts are pointing to paths on the build machine that don't exist.