On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Per Persson wrote: > Hi, > I just subitted an upated package for octave-forge to the tracker. > > There is one part that I don't particularly like and would like some > feedback on: > Octave-forge is a set of extensions to octave and must have its path > added to octave's search path. There is a global startup script in > /sw/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc that is the proper place to do > it. This script is empty by default. > > octave-forge's install script prints out info to the user about what to > add to the search path, but that will not be seen by the user so I've > made sure that fink's install phase captures that output and places > _adds_ it to octave's global startup file in case it has been modified. > > Snippet from .info file > ----------------------- > make install prefix=%i | grep LOADPATH | cat > %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc - > > %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.new > mv %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc > %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.old > mv %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.new > %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc > > I see a number of problems here, such as upgrading of the package means > adding more and more to the path. I also have no clue whatsoever what > will happen in a binary package. > > Maybe the best solution is to move whatever startup file there is aside > and just add the path info together with a notice of what has been > done? Any user/admin who changes the _global_ startup script would > probably find that message in no time. > Or perhaps just add a line to the startup script to read a different > file octaverc.fink which holds the added path info? > > Maybe even better to make package octave add some lines to the global > startup script to check for the presence of a file named > 'octave-forge-path' and read it. Jeff, comments? >
I vote for this last solution - and putting the file in /sw/etc. Just let me know how and I'll do this to the octave package. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 FAX : (303)497-6449 325 Broadway Web : http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80305-3328 Office: Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
