Re: Need Octave Forge rpm

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:47:01 -0500

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:19 -0500, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> FC provides Octave. However, it doesn't provide Octave Forge, which
> includes several utilities and other enhancements to Octave. Octave
> Forge is released in a version parallel to each release of Octave.
>
> The Octave Forge release equivalent to the version of Octave provided in
> FC3 is only available as a tgz file. An rpm spec is provided in the
> file, but there are no instructions how to do the packaging.
>
> I suggest that future releases of FC should include Octave Forge as well
> as Octave.
>
> However, in the interim, can anyone provide a simple explanation of how
> to use the rpm spec provided in the Octave Forge release to produce a
> compatible FC3 rpm for Octave Forge?

Think what you want is the -t option to rpmbuild to get the specfile
from inside the archive. See "man rpmbuild" "/-tSTAGE".

Phil

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