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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
