Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm starting to take a look at creating a standard method of building rpms of > octave packages for Fedora. I'm starting with the old octave-forge package as > a starting point. : <snip> : > > Finally, when a user tries to remove and rpm install octave package, they get: > > octave:3> pkg uninstall octcdf > warning: some of the packages you want to uninstall are not installed > > which does not seem correct. > > Thoughts?
Perhaps no answer to your question but I can share some user experiences. This (warning messages) is what I also see when I try to uninstall/install (renew/update) individual octave-forge packages in Mandriva (2010.1). Mandriva has made renewal/updating individual octave-forge packages a cumbersome process, with unexpected dependencies all over the place, perhaps due to the still "monolithic" character of its octave-forge rpm, and rpm and (octave's) pkg stepping onto each other's toes. Hopefully you can make it much easier for Fedora users, up to the point that rpm isn't needed (or only needed for initial installation), i.e., so that just Octave's pkg command will do. (I'd prefer pkg over rpm in this case.) I think development of octave-forge packages proceeds more rapidly than rpm's can be built, tested & updated - if you automate building rpms from individual octave-forge packages this can be alleviated a bit. Thus either Q-control by Fedora will be hampered, or octave users will be withheld a bit from trying the newest octave-forge packages (in turn, hampering package development) if they must wait until tested rpms become available. FYI, "pkg" has an option "forge" that will d/l & install octave-forge packages directly from octave.sf.net. Permissions (root) may interfere when packages go into /usr/[local/]share, but that's probably resolvable. P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
