On 03/17/2011 02:07 PM, Jerry James wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Orion Poplawski<orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> - New octave packaging guidelines have been submitted to the FPC. I think >> there were some questions, but I haven't been contacted directly. >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave >> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/61 > > Thanks for doing this. I'm currently trying to package Csdp [1], > which comes with an Octave interface, and have been struggling with > how to do that, since I know nothing about Octave. That packaging > draft really helped. I have some minor comments on it. > > First, it shows that a noarch Octave package needs to BR octave-devel. > But it looks like octave-devel is only useful for arch-specific > Octave packages, isn't it? So shouldn't a noarch Octave package just > BR octave? Sounds correct. Changed. > Second, the %octave_pkg_build macro doesn't quite do what I need. The > Csdp sources aren't in the right structure for octave's "pkg build" > command, so I have to move stuff around, create a DESCRIPTION file, > etc. The end result is that I need to do this: > > %octave_cmd pkg build '-verbose' > %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{_arch} csdp > > on a directory named "csdp" in the unpacked sources, rather than on > %SOURCE0. Is this unusual? If so, perhaps there is no point in > dealing with it. Hmm, this really was only intended for packaging octave packages like those at the octave forge site http://octave.sourceforge.net/. Those do conform to the standard for octave packages though. Can you post a srpm? I might be able to rework %octave_pkg_build to have the ability to take an argument. Also, I'm looking into moving the package location into %{_libdir}/octave and will be renaming the %pre macro to be %octave_pkg_preun. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
