On 12/21/2010 4:01 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Hi > > tir, 21 12 2010 kl. 15:50 -0700, skrev Orion Poplawski: >> 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. > I don't really know that much about RPM's, so I can't offer much helpful > insight. David Bateman did some work on autogenerating RPM spec files > for packages. Did you look at this? > I suspect that his work is the basis for much of what is already in place, and what I'm basing my current templates on. >> Although, now that I look at the octave-forge repo, I don't see a single >> package that has an on_unistall.m file. Could we reserve this for distro >> use? > Can't you just add an 'on_rpm_uninstall.m' and do a > > echo "on_rpm_uninstall">> on_uninstall.m > > to ensure that this script is called? > That may be a bit simpler to implement. Thanks. >> 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. > Hmm, I guess we should check if the package in question is installed by > 'root' and adapt the error message accordingly. We could say something > like: "warning: you do not have the necessary privileges to remove > package 'XXX'". Could you open a bug report on http://bugs.octave.org > for this? > > Søren Done: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31946
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