Re: list length

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:57:12PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> Is there any chance of a new 2.1 -series release soon (and a subsequent Debian
> package thanks to Dirk)? My scripts are relying on some subtle functionality
> which is present only on the CVS version, but compiling CVS Octave to all
> the computers I use is starting to be a bit of a pain.

Have you considered local .debs ?  

Do 'apt-get source octave2.1', copy the debian/ directory into the cvs tree,
create a changelog entry that sorts higher (i.e. 2.1.50.cvs-1, or even
2.1.50.local-1) and build it with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot.

Dirk

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