Jean-François Mertens wrote:
>
> 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
I tried it out (motivated by the need for octcdf + desire for a sane 
install of that). 

I assume it could be modified to use the system's OpenSSL, rather than 
Fink's--so that we don't have to tag it as Restrictive?


-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter


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