Dear all,
I have just had a quick word with bernardl on IRC and he said to bring to
your attention that I feel that there are some documentation/clarity issues
to do with OPKGC. I am struggling and want people to know why so things can
be made better.
I have been plodding along with MPITB (MPI Tool Box) for GNU Octave
packaging and development and have got to the stage where I want to package
up my rpms so that they become an OSCAR package. So I went to the wiki and
unfortunately got very confused...
I first visited
http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/BuildOpkg this page
give a brief, "you need to build packages this way now" message and points
you to http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/opkg_opkgc .
This page points you to a svn co of *opkgsrc/tools/opkgc *which I couldn't
find, I guessed after a while that it meant here:
http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/pkgsrc/opkgc
I am not sure if the wiki pages are just unfinished but their fragmentation
made them hard to follow.
On building and reading the docs from svn I am greatly confused about how to
use opkgc and what I need to do to get my rpms into a package. The old
manual has some comprehensive instructions on how to actually make a package
and I feel confident that I could do so. Whereas I feel that the docs on
opkgc/opkg are good at describing why and what the tools do but not how to
use them for development of packages. I realise that this is devel stuff and
docs tend to come later and I appreciate the effort to make things easier
via opkgc.
Sadly, I'm not sure how to even start, I will figure it out eventually as I
usually do, but not coming from a computing background clear "this is how
you do it" instructions would be lovely. I'll try and remember to make notes
as I *slowly* plod along providing I can figure out how to go forwards and
perhaps they could be used to start a manual.
Thank you for your time,
Kind Regards,
Stuart Archibald (Imperial College London.)
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