[Pkg-octave-devel] Fixing pkg install [was Re: very small packages - merge into general/miscelleneous or move into core]

[Sébastien Villemot]

[ replying to the Debian Octave Group list ]

Le jeudi 23 janvier 2014 à 13:34 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:13:50PM +0100, c. wrote:
> > > the other I don't remember. The change in value I do
> > > not remember - it doesn't matter however. I am not an expert in whatever
> > > domain the constants are used, so I assume that every change might be
> > > important to someone working in a specific domain. 
> > 
> > That's why I whish Debian packagers would let pkg.m work 
> > so Octave users could just decide for themselves.
> 
> We share that wish. Have you a fix for 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32049 ?

As a reminder, this issue is also tracked in Debian as #536839 and
#672651.

If I understand correctly the issue, the problem comes from the "pkg
prefix" line that we put in /etc/octave.conf. It prevents users from
installing packages in their home directory with "pkg install -local".

My impression is that this "pkg prefix" line in /etc/octave.conf
currently serves no useful purpose (it may be a remnant from the time
when there were 2 different octave versions in the archive). The default
global location hardcoded in pkg.m is already the right one. The only
change that may be needed would be to force the "-global" flag when
running "pkg install" from octave-pkg-dev.

I think packages in the global location would still be detected by
octave, because of the "pkg global_list" line in /etc/octave.conf.

Am I missing something? (I admit I did not test that my proposition
works)

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