Re: [OctDev] rpm packaging of octave packages

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:32:06AM +0100, c. wrote:
> 
> On 22 Dec 2010, at 23:17, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> > ons, 22 12 2010 kl. 23:05 +0100, skrev Thomas Weber:
> >> Having quite some experience with maintaining the splitted packages in
> >> Debian I can assure you that maintaining the small packages in a
> >> distribution is at least *an order of magnitude* more work than the
> >> monolithic build ever was.
> > 
> > Is there anything that can be changed in Octave-Forge that would
> > simplify this work?
> 
> I vaguely remember David had implemented a method to automatically produce an 
> RPM out of an OF package, 
> maybe we could have something like 
> 
> pkg build -rpm package_name-version.tar.gz
> 
> and 
> 
> pkg build -deb package_name-version.tar.gz
> 
> directly in pkg.m?

I don't think that will work in the general case. I will probably work
for packages which contain only .m files (in fact I think that for a
bunch of .m files, pkg.m is overkill). 

But for a package which compiles code, you have not much chance in
building something that will work across distributions.

        Thomas