On Fri Dec 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM CET, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 05:42:35PM +0100, Marco van Hulten a écrit :
>> With NCO you can manipulate and analyse netCDF and similar files.  It is
>> a useful addition to to tools that are already there.
>> 
>> So you could do this:
>> 
>>   wget https://cluster.klima.uni-bremen.de/~fmaussion/teaching/climate/CERES_EBAF-Surface_Ed4.1_Clim-2005-2015.nc
>>   ncdump -h CERES_EBAF-Surface_Ed4.1_Clim-2005-2015.nc | head
>>   ncrename -d month,mo CERES_EBAF-Surface_Ed4.1_Clim-2005-2015.nc
>>   ncdump -h CERES_EBAF-Surface_Ed4.1_Clim-2005-2015.nc | head
>> 
>> to rename the time axis.
>> 
>> Apropos, geo/cdo has some of the same functionality, but it is designed
>> to handle data variables, not meta information like axes names, so
>> geoscientists will quickly be looking for something like NCO.
>> 
>> OK to add this?
>
> from a first look, you'll need at least fixing the proper versionning
> for the @so that should be @lib with the version, and a BDEP on
> print/texinfo.
>
> @so lib/libnco-5.3.6.so -> that doesnt use the 0.0 from SHARED_LIBS.

I added print/texinfo (and see that this is needed).  I see that this is
in pkg/PLIST.  There are no @lib entries.  Does that mean I do not need
to include SHARED_LIBS?

 Marco

> Landry
>
> (as the de-facto maintainer of geo/ i'm globally positive in adding this
> even if i never encountered/never had to deal with netcdf files at work)

Great!

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