I'm currently working with octave upstream to get their new package
management system in line with Fedora so that we can easily build RPMs
with it. I'd like to get a Fedora package standard configured and
approved at the same time. I've put a draft on the wiki at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave
Some further information:
- Currently octave uses the /usr/libexec tree to install the .oct files.
These are really shared libraries. It does use an arch/api versioned
directory, e.g.:
/usr/libexec/octave/packages/java-1.2.1/i386-redhat-linux-gnu-api-v26/
Some other package files (PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL) get added there too.
- Currently the entire octave forge collection is part of the
octave-forge package. I will releasing this for F8, with the
understanding that this will be replaced by individual packages later.
The octave forge package will have provides like:
Provides: octave-gsl = 1.0.1
to try to provide a better upgrade path. We may want to keep the
octave-forge as a meta package that pulls in the others. Let me know if
this doesn't seem correct.
- DISTPKG (%{octave_distpkg}) is a flag that this is being built by a
package manager. The contents get inserted into an informational
message, but otherwise does not mean much.
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