On 08 Jul 2007, at 07:09, Jean-François Mertens wrote:

>
> On 05 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
>> The current version of octave in 10.4/unstable has gone to a package
>> management system of its own to regulate installation of  
>> components of
>> the octave-forge extensions. However, it also appears to be
>> possible to
>> do a monolithic version.
>> I've gone ahead and worked up a "draft"octave-forge for octave-2.9.x
>> .info file that uses the last available monolithic octave-forge
>> tarball
>> (targeted toward octave-2.9.6).
>
> Hi Alexander,
>
> I've put another draft in experimental/jfmertens/main/finkinfo/sci.
> Since it seems not clear that monolithic versions will continue to
> be available, this one uses octave's own pkg management system
> to build a single fink pkg from the latest bundle _ ie, targeted  
> towards
> octave-2.9.12, the one in fink.
> It is slow _ (layers of pkg management systems _ they eat all your
> CPU cycles !) _, it can possibly be improved by fetching instead a
> tarball from their cvs repositiry _ that one would have at least a
> top-level
> makefile; a top-level configure cache would also improve things...
> But it seems workable, and +/- "legal"
>
> Jean-Francois

There is still something to fix in %p/share/octave/ls-R;
1) to make sure (PostInstScript) it gets re-updated correctly
2) perl -pi -e 's,%i,%p,'

JF
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