Bug#672651: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: Bug#672651: Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 04:16:13PM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Yeah, I would prefer to keep the Debian packages up-to-date than to suggest to people to use pkg install. Source distribution is *very* un-Debian. This isn't Gentoo. Chasing dependencies and compiling is difficult,

Bug#672651: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 12 May 2012 12:45, Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org wrote: Setting pkg prefix in /etc/octave.conf breaks the default behavior of allowing users to install packages into their home directory with pkg install -local. I always thought that Debian users shouldn't be using pkg at all. There's a

Bug#672651: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-13 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Sébastien Villemot sebastien.ville...@ens.fr wrote: Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org writes: Setting pkg prefix in /etc/octave.conf breaks the default behavior of allowing users to install packages into their home directory with pkg install -local. The Debian

Bug#672651: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: Bug#672651: Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13 May 2012 10:48, Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org wrote: I see your points and agree that this is the Debian way, but ideally the Debian way doesn't get in the way of users installing their own packages or Forge packages not yet in Debian. Yeah, I would prefer to keep the Debian packages

Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-12 Thread Mike Miller
Package: octave-common Version: 3.6.1-4 Severity: normal Setting pkg prefix in /etc/octave.conf breaks the default behavior of allowing users to install packages into their home directory with pkg install -local. Workaround is for the user to execute pkg prefix ~/octave ~/octave to restore the

Bug#672651: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

2012-05-12 Thread Sébastien Villemot
reassign 536839 octave 3.6.1-5 forcemerge 536839 672651 thanks Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org writes: Setting pkg prefix in /etc/octave.conf breaks the default behavior of allowing users to install packages into their home directory with pkg install -local. The Debian way of installing Octave