Re: [OctDev] rpm packaging of octave packages

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/21/2010 4:01 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> tir, 21 12 2010 kl. 15:50 -0700, skrev Orion Poplawski:
> > I'm starting to take a look at creating a standard method of building rpms of
> > octave packages for Fedora.  I'm starting with the old octave-forge package as
> > a starting point.
> I don't really know that much about RPM's, so I can't offer much helpful
> insight. David Bateman did some work on autogenerating RPM spec files
> for packages. Did you look at this?
I suspect that his work is the basis for much of what is already in 
place, and what I'm basing my current templates on.
> > Although, now that I look at the octave-forge repo, I don't see a single
> > package that has an on_unistall.m file.  Could we reserve this for distro use?
> Can't you just add an 'on_rpm_uninstall.m' and do a
>
>    echo "on_rpm_uninstall">>  on_uninstall.m
>
> to ensure that this script is called?
That may be a bit simpler to implement.  Thanks.
> > Finally, when a user tries to remove and rpm install octave package, they get:
> >
> > octave:3>  pkg uninstall octcdf
> > warning: some of the packages you want to uninstall are not installed
> >
> > which does not seem correct.
> Hmm, I guess we should check if the package in question is installed by
> 'root' and adapt the error message accordingly. We could say something
> like: "warning: you do not have the necessary privileges to remove
> package 'XXX'". Could you open a bug report on http://bugs.octave.org
> for this?
>
> Søren
Done: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31946

- Orion