Re: your mail

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Mar 13, 2016 8:02 PM, "Nicholas Jankowski" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mar 13, 2016 6:02 PM, "Mike Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 21:46:56 +0100, Jonathan Camilleri wrote:
> > > 1. Octave on Windows 10 requires dependencies, I am not sure whether
> > > it is safe to install this package without dependencies.
> > >
> > > >> pkg install 'C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\src\optim-1.5.0.tar.gz'
> > > error: the following dependencies were unsatisfied:
> > >    optim needs struct >= 1.0.12
> > > >>
> >
> > The error indicates exactly what is missing, did you try installing the
> > struct package?
> >
> >   pkg install -forge struct
> >   pkg install -forge optim
> >
>
> FYI, I noticed that
>
> >> pkg update
>
> Errors out completely if a package has a version dependency , even if that package is in the list to be updated but the order is such that the wrong one was tried first.
>
> This is currently the case with the windows 4.0.0 installer, where I had been advising people run the build_packages.m script followed by a 'pkg update' since their all pretty old.  My guess is that's what Jon was doing.
>
> Maybe working past that is something pkg should be able to do?
>
> Nick J

Likely a low priority item but I did add a bug report  about dependencies causing pkg to error out
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47405