[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47491] pkg: no method to query directories where package is installed

[Carnë Draug]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47491>

                 Summary: pkg: no method to query directories where package is
installed
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: carandraug
            Submitted on: Tue 22 Mar 2016 04:10:51 GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

An installed package has two directories, an arch independent directory with
all the m files, and an arch dependent with all the oct files (this is a bit
of a farce since the the later is nested on the first).

To find the location of the arch independent directory, one can search through
"pkg list".  However, there is is no way to find the other directory.  The
most typical solution is to use octave_config_info to deduce that directory. 
However, this only works because the directories are nested and requires
knowledge of the internals of pkg.

Path for both directories could be returned by pkg describe (pkg list is a bit
of a pain because it always returns the info for all packages in a cell array
of scalar structs).




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